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Byline: Peter Vieth A factory worker left disabled and in pain from a 2018 industrial accident has recovered $8 million in a settlement with defendants who sold and installed a [...]

Byline: Thomas Franz A Michigan Court of Appeals panel affirmed a trial court's ruling to deny an employer's motion for summary disposition in a workers' compensation case. In Mitchell v. [...]

Byline: Matt Chaney  A painter who was run over by a bucket lift vehicle has settled out of court with the employer of the driver for $1.6 million.Plaintiff's lawyer Isaac [...]

Byline: Heath Hamacher The North Carolina Supreme Court on June 9 found that a Parsons presumption - the presumption that subsequent medical treatment is related to the compensable injury unless [...]

Byline: Phillip Bantz An exotic dancer who was caught in the crossfire during a shootout at the Boom Boom Room in Columbia has notched another victory at the South Carolina [...]

Byline: Phillip Bantz The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission and a circuit judge got it wrong when they denied a change of condition claim from a school employee who was [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins Although employer already had paid claimant a lump sum settlement under a 2013 order covering his 2010 injury, the order also called for employer to pay claimant's [...]

Byline: Agenique Smiley Hard work should not result in work-related injury; however, many employees find themselves in that exact situation every day. The Worker's Disability Compensation Act (WDCA) was enacted [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Beal v. Coastal Carriers, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-410-16, 35 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Neither South Carolina [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins A claimant who worked in a light-duty capacity on a courthouse custodial staff after a work-related injury, who was laid off because employer decided to out­source its [...]

Byline: Sheri Qualters Workers' compensation lawyers say a case that languished for three and a half years at the Department of Industrial Accidents is an extreme example - but an [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where a recipient of workers' compensation benefits recovered damages from a third party for pain and suffering, the workers' compensation insurer's statutory lien does not extend to [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy Payments that a public school employee received under a work-sharing plan were properly excluded from the calculation of his average weekly wage when determining workers' compensation benefits [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins The Court of Appeals affirms the commission's factual determinations regarding claimant's credibility, identification of her specific injuries from a fall and her non-violation of a safety rule [...]

Byline: David Donovan An injured worker whose former employer had been notified that she needed round-the-clock care from her husband is entitled to workers' compensation for that care-plus interest-even though [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Easter-Rozzelle v. City of Charlotte (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-1083, 18 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) (Richard Dietz, J., concurring) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins Lawyers enter into stipulations during litigation to same time for the courts and themselves. A stipulation may be less than clear, however, or at least less advantageous [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins A claimant who had his own plumbing business but could no longer perform that work after a job-related injury to his right shoulder unjustifiably refused to cooperate [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where a jury returned a verdict in favor of two defendants in a negligence action to recover damages for injuries the plaintiff allegedly sustained while working on [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Morrison v. Wal-Mart (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0967, 9 pp) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: After an on-the-job injury [...]

Byline: Heath Hamacher What began as a denied workers' compensation claim and a case dropped by his first attorneys turned into a $3.5 million settlement for a man paralyzed from [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where a U.S. District Court judge found that a defendant insurance company had no duty to defend a policyholder in a personal injury action, the judgment must [...]

Byline: Peter Vieth A church helping to preserve a historic African-American school house is responsible for disability and medical benefits for a worker severely injured in the project, according to [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins A pipe fitter who injured his knee working for a shipbuilder is not entitled under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to receive an award for [...]

Byline: Heath Hamacher Employers can pay medical benefits payments to injured employees for more than 90 days without triggering an admission of liability, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where (1) an employee of a policyholder was injured while on a business trip, (2) the policyholder tendered the employee's workers' compensation claim to one of its [...]

Byline: Traci R. Gentilozzi A jury must determine whether a lawyer gave his client appropriate advice about the effect of a settlement on the client's receipt of workers' compensation benefits, [...]

Byline: Debroah Elkins Hobet Mining LLC v. Epling (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-069-15, 17 pp.) (Harris, J.) No. 13-1738, April 17, 2015; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins Hobet Mining LLC v. Epling (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-01-0358, 17 pp.) (Harris, J.) No. 13-1738, April 17, 2015; On Petition for Review; 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Fields v. H&E Equipment Services, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0347, 10 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from the Industrial Commission. N.C. App. Holding: Since [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where an employer requested that a judge correct a memorandum of agreement that allegedly contained an incorrect date of injury, the judge's denial of that request for [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Clemmons v. Lowe's Home Centers, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-035-15, 15 pp.) (James Lockemy, J.) Appealed from the Workers' Compensation Commission. S.C. App. Holding: Because [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor Ferguson v. New Hampshire Insurance Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-034-15, 9 pp.) (Paul Short Jr., J.) Appealed from the Workers' Compensation Commission. S.C. App. Holding: [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins The commission failed to apply the correct legal standard to evaluate a claim for psychological injury by a longshoreman who accidentally struck and killed a coworker in [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins The commission erred in reversing an award of benefits to an electrical equipment specialist who hurt his back unloading a capacitor checker stored in a large trunk, [...]

Byline: Traci R. Gentilozzi The estate of a utility worker who was electrocuted at a job site cannot sue for damages under the intentional tort exception of the Workers' Disability [...]