Work Injuries

When people are injured at work in North Carolina, they are generally limited to whatever benefits that the North Carolina Workers' Compensation Act provides them. In other words, most of the time, the injured employee is not able to sue their employer for their damages.

The North Carolina Workers' Compensation Act provides for certain benefits, including payment of the injured workers' medical expenses, prescription expenses and the travel expenses to and from his or her medical treatment. Also, if the injured employee's authorized treating physician says that the employee cannot work, then the employee is entitled to almost immediate payment of disability compensation for being unable to work. The amount of this disability compensation is usually 2/3 of that employee's average weekly wage.

Once an injured employee is able to successfully and completely return to his or her previous job, then that employee may be entitled to compensation for permanent disability if the authorized physician believes that there is such a disability. However, if that person is not able to return to his previous job, a whole new set of issues arises.

The work injury attorneys at MSMMJ&W have been practicing work injury law since the early 1980's. We know how to get the job done, as evidenced by hundreds of satisfied clients.

Also, see our work injury articles under our Articles section.