The following articles exemplify the need for Workers' Compensation in North Carolina, and why it is often beneficial, even necessary, to hire an attorney to help with your workers' compensation case.
The Charlotte Observer presented an extraordinarily good six part series on workplace injuries suffered by North Carolina workers at poultry processing plants.
You can find the entire series at The Charlotte Observer
- Part One: The cruelest cuts: The human cost of bringing poultry to your table. This article suggests N.C. poultry processor House of Raeford underreports workplace injuries, finds reasons to fire injured North Carolina workers, and discourages injured workers from getting proper medical treatment.
Workers' compensation decisions make valuable news. Stories about how cases are decided and tried can help victims of on the job injuries, and their attorneys, understand how to address an individual case.
The News and Observer reports in a two part series about a North Carolina poultry processing employer that illegally hires underage workers for dangerous jobs, risking serious workplace injuries.Raid reveals underage workers.
- Part Two: FIGHT and MIGHT: Poultry company chairman defies regulators, watches pennies. This article attempts to document the political power and contempt for government regulators shown by poultry processors, resulting in numerous workplace injuries to N.C. workers, as well as how penny-pinching can lead to unsafe work conditions.
- Part Three: Misery on the line: Some managers knew workers were illegal, former employees say. This article suggests that N.C. employers knowingly hire illegal immigrants because they are easier to control and less likely to report on-the-job workers’ compensation injuries.
- Part Four: Workers question medical care. In this article, Charlotte Observer reporters document North Carolina workers’ allegations that they were refused adequate medical treatment for their N.C. workers’ compensation injuries.
- Part Five: Pain behind safety streak: Company: 7 million hours without lost time. This article suggests that employers forced injured employees back to work so they would not have to report their N.C. workers’ compensation injuries.
- Part Six: Workplace inspections at 15-year low: In this article Observer Reporters document declines in workplace inspections and financial penalties which fail to punish companies that allow dangerous conditions to contribute to workplace injuries in North Carolina.
The Greensboro News & Record reported on woman who was entitled to a replacement of her breast implant as a result of a serious North Carolina workers’ compensation injury.
Read the article at The Greensboro News & Record
Anne Harris, the Greensboro woman’s attorney, responded to the article about her client in this blog
Workers' compensation decisions make valuable news. Stories about how cases are decided and tried can help victims of on the job injuries, and their attorneys, understand how to address an individual case.
The Raleigh News and Observer reprints a Charlotte Observer two part series about a North Carolina poultry processing employer that illegally hires underage workers for dangerous jobs, risking serious workplace workers' compensation injuries. Raid reveals underage workers
Second part of this News and Observer series exposes use of underage workers in North Carolina and elsewhere to do dangerous jobs, resulting in workplace workers' comp injuries or death. Danger stalks teens on the job.
Raleigh News and Observer editorial following the Charlotte Observer article on North Carolina company hiring underage workers, risking serious work-place injuries.
Unkind Cuts
Federal and State governments promise improvements in monitoring the hiring of underage workers to do dangerous work often resulting in on the job injuries in North Carolina. Follow up to the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer stories. Child labor crackdown promised
New Medicaid guidelines in North Carolina have been modified to allow disabled workers to earn more money in employment and still qualify for Medicaid. The goal is to allow injured North Carolina workers to be more fully invested in their jobs without losing medical benefits. Pay limits raised for disabled North Carolina workers
NC citizens, including injured North Carolina workers, who can't get affordable insurance because of pre-existing conditions are now getting aid from the state. North Carolina Health Insurance Risk Pool
Charlotte Observer editorial questions whether employers are cutting corners on safety and putting NC workers at risk. Bad economy may be putting NC workers at risk
On the job deaths in North Carolina increase 31% in 2008. Job deaths up 31% in North Carolina
New York Times reports on difficulties injured workers face in recovering for injuries caused by toxic chemicals while on the job. Exposed to Solvent, Worker Faces Hurdles
Laid off NC workers have more time to apply for state run COBRA coverage. This should apply to injured NC workers receiving workers' compensation in NC, but apparently does not.
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/1574485.html
