by Kevin Bunn | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog, General NC Workers Comp Info
Employees can be expensive. In addition to providing workers’ compensation coverage for their employees, employers are required to pay payroll taxes on their employee’s wages and to withhold additional payroll taxes from their employee’s paychecks. Employers must...
by Kevin Bunn | Jan 29, 2014 | Blog, General NC Workers Comp Info, Uncategorized
There is probably more bad information about contractors, subcontractors and Ghost Policies than any other area of NC Workers’ Comp Law. Let’s start with the key statute, NC Gen Stat § 97.19, and then work our way around to ghost policies. North Carolina...
by Kevin Bunn | Nov 12, 2013 | Blog, Procedure, Settlements
MEDIATION IN NC WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CASES Mediation in NC Workers’ Compensation Cases is an attempt to settle a dispute by use of an independent person to aid the parties in the resolution of their disagreement. The advantage of mediation is it gives the...
by Kevin Bunn | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog, Causation - NC Workers' Comp, Uncategorized
One of the common misconceptions I hear is that an injured workers who is at fault in his NC workers’ compensation injury should not be able to collect workers’ compensation. In North Carolina, this is entirely untrue. Workers’ compensation is a...
by Kevin Bunn | Oct 14, 2013 | Blog, Disability, Settlements
INJURY RATINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS’ COMP CASES Many injured NC workers have questions when their doctor assigns a permanent partial disability rating. Many times injured workers are contacted by an adjuster working for their employer’s workers’...
by Kevin Bunn | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog, Medical - NC Workers' Comp, Procedure
Medical Treatment in NC Workers’ Comp Cases Many NC workers who have been injured on the job have questions about what treatment is covered by NC workers’ comp, how to go about getting the treatment they need, and how long they are eligible for treatment....
