Workplace Injuries

• Experts Descend Upon ConAgra Plant in Garner, NC

  Brent Adams | June 10, 2009 5:23 PM | 3 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Industrial accidents are tragic. They are usually unnecessary and preventable. These tragedies are usually caused by defective products or negligence. They occur usually because the employers...

• Watch Out For Fly by Night Jobs

  Brent Adams | July 09, 2009 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  As the economy has gotten worse people who are in need of income will do just about anything to get money to feed and take care of their family. In many cases this will lead to an under-the-table...

• How Serious Is The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Problem?

  Brent Adams | February 26, 2009 12:52 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  In recent years, the U.S. Department of Labor has concluded that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is the “chief occupational hazard of the 90’s—disabling workers in epidemic...

• Doctor Shopping Employer Required to Pay Benefits

  Brent Adams | June 01, 2007 4:48 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  An employer's brazen doctor shopping efforts to terminate workers' compensation benefits backfired in a recent case. A decision of the North Carolina Industrial Commission granted full workers' compensation benefits to an injured employee and found that the employer's efforts to deny benefits constituted stubborn and unfounded litigiousness and that the appeals were brought by the employer...

• Pork Processing Plant Workers Contract Illness After Inhaling Pig Brain Particles

  Sheila Chavis | February 08, 2008 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  A cluster of workers at a pork processing plant in Minnesota have contracted an illness that has been connected with the workers' exposure to particles of pig brains. The workers were found to be exposed by inhaling the bits of pig brain during a process where the brains are blown out of the skull of the pig using compressed air. The brains are harvested packaged and sold primarily to Japan...

• Employer Fined For Cutting Off Workers’ Compensation Benefits

  Brent Adams | February 20, 2009 3:05 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld an Order imposing two thousand dollars ($2,000) in legal fees to an injured worker. The fee sanction was imposed because the employer arbitrarily cut...

• Workers' Compensation Cheaters Hurt Legitimate Claimants

  Brent Adams | February 26, 2008 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Fortunately, cheaters who try to defraud the workers' compensation system almost always get caught. These few cheaters should be punished severely. They not only hurt their employers and their insurance companies, they also make it harder for legitimate claimants to recover the benefits to which they are entitled.Workers' compensation fraud and wrongdoing by employers and their insurance...

• When Injury Occurs At Work Caused By Someone Other Than The Employer

  Brent Adams | February 11, 2009 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  If a person is injured on the job he or she is entitled to certain workers’ compensation benefits. If someone is injured by the negligence of another; the victim is entitled to recover for his...

• “Absolute Certainty” Is Not Required to Recover In Workers’ Compensation Case

  Brent Adams | February 10, 2009 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has recently affirmed payment of the workers’ compensation claim to a stroke victim. The employee’s doctors had testified that his on-the-job...

• Issue of whether an injury is covered by workers compensation law can be complex

  Brent Adams | January 17, 2008 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC

  Employees are entitled to benefits from workers' compensation whenever they receive a personal injury "arising out of and in the course of employment. For example, a machinist received an injury to his eye from flying glass from a cola bottle while on his lunch break that caused blindness in that eye. As he was placing the bottle in the cooler, it exploded. He would be entitled to receive...