Workers’ Compensation always dramatically adversely impacts all areas of the injured worker’s life. Many times, particularly in denied claims, an on the job injury forces an injured worker to go without medical treatment and wages. It is not unusual for families to be destroyed when a family member suffers a work related injury. Therefore, when you are injured on the job, swift action is critical to the success or failure of your workers’ compensation claim.

Our firm only represents injured workers. We do not represent or work for employers or insurance companies. The complete focus of our law practice is workers’ compensation and the associated retaliatory discharge actions.

Under the law, no attorney in a workers’ compensation case can receive payment for legal services absent an order from the Industrial Commission. All our workers’ compensation claims are taken on a contingency fee basis. This means, in a denied claim, you owe us no attorneys’ fees unless we are able to ultimately prevail before the Industrial Commission. In an accepted claim we will at some point begin taking a fee out of weekly indemnity compensation payments, if ordered by the Industrial Commission. However, all clients remain ultimately responsible for the costs that are incurred during the prosecution of the workers’ compensation claim. These costs may include the cost of copies of depositions taken, the cost of obtaining your medical records, and the court costs associated with any appeal.

If a workers’ compensation claim is denied, it can take as long as six (6) years to travel through the process, which includes mediation, a hearing before a deputy commission, an appellate hearing before the full commission, an appellate review by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and an appellate review by the North Carolina Supreme Court.

When you are injured on the job, regardless of whether the claim is accepted or denied, it is your responsibility to obtain and to comply with the medical treatment necessary to get you better. When you have achieved your pre-injury health, or as close as you can return to your pre-injury health, it is your responsibility to return to gainful employment, either with the same employer, a new employer, or a new employer subsequent to re-training.

Our firm works diligently, effectively, and efficiently to provide the best representation to all of our clients. We care about our clients and it shows. We believe that the attorney you choose to represent you does make a difference. If you choose us to represent you we believe that we can make a difference for you.