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Category: Workers’ Compensation

Two Big Changes in Workers’ Compensation

November 26, 2011
Oxner
Big Change Number One. Currently if you are injured and you cannot return to suitable employment, you are entitled to draw workers’ compensation benefits for life. For nearly twenty years Todd Oxner has been telling people if they live to 102 and die in a bar room brawl they’ll get paid until they’re 102. No […]
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Doctors For Sale! Return to Work Notes For Sale! Case-destroying Opinions For Sale!

July 25, 2013
Oxner
In a dramatic move to increase the stranglehold that workers’ compensation insurance companies and employers have on injured workers, the North Carolina legislature has passed another provision which will have immediate effect on all workers compensation claims. Whether your claim is accepted or denied your employer and their insurance company can force you to see […]
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Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act

August 6, 2013
Oxner
The Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act ( or REDA, as it is more commonly referred to) was designed to protect employees who are terminated, demoted, or have other adverse action against them, because they exercised their rights under Workers’ Compensation or other specific circumstances. Every termination claim is not a REDA claim – North Carolina is […]
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The Death of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

September 25, 2013
Oxner
As far back as we can remember patients have had the comfort of knowing that what they said to their doctors was going to be kept confidential. Sure, there were medical releases, and occasions when medical records were produced. And in workers’ compensation cases the insurance companies could send rehabilitation nurses (most of whom are […]
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Seven Things Which Let a Workers’ Comp Adjuster Know She’ll Probably Win Your Claim

October 15, 2013
Oxner
1. Injured Workers Without Attorneys. This is almost a no-brainer. The Workers’ Compensation Act is so complicated and so full of loopholes that it takes a serious professional to know it all. So when a seasoned adjuster goes up against an injured worker without an attorney at his side, it’s almost a guaranteed cheap settlement […]
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