NC Workers’ Comp Changes on the Way?

According to an article in the Raleigh News and Observer by Mandy Locke it looks like the NC General Assembly is going to put forward some additional workers’ compensation reforms this session. The first proposal is one I have discussed before, which is to make...

NC Workers’ Comp and Internet Use Disorder?

Now that “internet use disorder” has become an accepted psychiatric condition how long before it is considered by the North Carolina Industrial Commission as an occupational disease?  My guess is a long, long time.  I am likely to let some other NC...

Poll Shows Support for NC Workers’ Comp Laws

North Carolina Policy Watch devoted the September 2012 issue of its Carolina Issues Poll to issues relating to the rights of workers and workplace safety. North Carolina Policy Watch is a project of the North Carolina Justice Center. The polling was a follow up on the...