Personal injury Lawyer Matt Arnold answers the question: “What qualifies a person to receive Workers’ Compensation benefits?” As employees of essential businesses and frontline workers, such as doctors and nurses, continue to go to work in North Carolina during the coronavirus pandemic, some of them end up contracting the…
Articles Posted in Workers’ Compensation Law Firm in Charlotte, North Carolina
Supreme Court Asked to Decide Validity of North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Law
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What if my employer doesn’t have workers’ comp insurance or doesn’t file the claim?” Those who suffer injuries at work in North Carolina are able to seek workers’ compensation benefits under North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Act. However, a Florida freight…
Maximum Medical Improvement and Workers’ Compensation
Charlotte Injury Lawyer Matt Arnold answers the question: “What is Maximum Medical Improvement and how does it effect my claim?” If you have been injured in the workplace, there are protections in place to provide compensation for the injuries you sustained. Workers’ compensation is an option for injured workers…
Is My Co-Worker Liable for My Injury?
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What happens when the employer refuses to acknowledge my claim?” Co-workers — you either hate them or you love them. Regardless of your personal feelings, in most employment situations you will be working with other people. For most people, co-workers…
Mistakes That can Derail a Workers’ Compensation Claim
Personal injury Lawyer Matt Arnold answers the question: “What qualifies a person to receive Workers’ Compensation benefits?” If you have been injured on the job, you might be entitled to receive workers’ compensation for your injury. The idea behind workers’ compensation is for an injured worker to still receive…
Court of Appeals Hears Case on Workers’ Compensation
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “What if my employer doesn’t have workers’ comp insurance or doesn’t file the claim?” Employees who are injured while working at their job sometimes have the opportunity to seek compensation for their injuries in the form of a workers’ compensation…
Rights of Construction Workers in North Carolina
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “Can my employer fire me because I filed a workers’ compensation claim?” Look around. Every building and structure is a result of the hard work of construction workers who make it their life’s work to be a part of the…
Mistakes to Avoid After Being Injured in the Workplace
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “Can my employer fire me because I filed a workers’ compensation claim?” Workplace accidents happen all the time. Mistakes happen, equipment fails, and other unplanned events occur on a daily basis. A workplace accident should not be the end of…
Ruling In New York May Give Plaintiffs Leverage
Charlotte Personal Injury Attorney Matt Arnold answers the question: “How do worker comps payments work?” We all know that in personal injury cases, settlement is a common end result. Though there are lots of reasons why this is the case, a big one is the degree of uncertainty on…
Texas Court Sides With Worker In Personal Injury Case
Personal injury Lawyer Matt Arnold answers the question: “If I am injured in a car accident or at work what should I do?” It is unfortunately all too common in personal injury cases that employers and insurance companies to dig up dirt on injured employees. In cases where a…