Practice Areas

• Workers' Compensation
• Personal Injury
• Social Security Disability

Firm News

• North Carolina Industrial Commission: The Vocational Rehabilitation Professional, from Page Rehabilitation, had a "strained interpretation of suitable employment and the duration of her proposed job search raises serious questions as to whether her objective was to benefit plaintiff or defendants."...
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: Liberty Mutual must provide yardcare and housecleaning to an injured brickmason....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: A restaurant dishwasher who slipped and fell, and was taken straight to an emergency room has proven that he was injured on the job....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: Sanctions against the insurance company for failing to accept a claim when our client, an insulation installer, was in an auto accident....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: We beat both AIG and Zurich in proving that this truck driver for a brick company had two separate accidents which both injured his knee, ultimately disabling him....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: OTP Lawyers stepped in to save an injured plumber whose original lawyer couldn't get the job done against Key Risk....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: Facing down the Argonaut workers' compensation adjuster in a disputed carpal tunnel case...
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: In this case with Kemper Insurance company the NCIC found that the employer, Cintas, "schemed" to fire plaintiff while she was on light duty....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: When are you "on the job" to be covered by workers' compensation?...
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: A restaurant manager who suffered gunshot wounds in a hold-up is entitled to a yard worker and a housecleaner because he cannot do much of his own work anymore....

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Library

Workers' Compensation

• Workers' Comp Tips
• My Employer Says They Don't Have Workers Comp Insurance
• What is the Present Value of Money and Why Should I Care?
• Seven Things which Make Adjusters Happy
• Five Ways Doctors Can Hurt Your Case

Social Security Disability

• Five Social Security Disability Tips
• What on Earth is a Workers' Compensation Offset?
• What People Applying For Disability Need To Know

General

• The Ten Worst Insurance Companies

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Testimonials

"From the initial interview until the check came I was treated like family. I have and will continue to recommend you to friends and family."

"I was impressed with your firm from the beginning... Although I'm sure you are totally busy with cases I always felt as though mine were the only one you were handling. All my calls were promptly returned and I really appreciate that."

"You were right up front about what the workers' compensation adjuster would try to do. I did not know anything about workers' compensation laws. I think your firm did an amazing job for me and my family."

"You were very easy to work with."

"You really know workers' compensation."

"You were the experts... I absolutely could not have gotten the same results without your help."

"You helped me in every way."

"You were abale to spot the problems immediately and fix them."

"There's no way I could have gotten the same results without your help."

"Your office a very, very profesional office. You have always treated me with great respect, honesty, and integrity."

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How We Work

Our first step in every case is to provide as much information about workers’ compensation, social security disability, and personal injury claims to you as possible.  We want you to understand what you are up against. We believe an education about North Carolina law is absolutely essential to your case. In fact we strongly recommend that you read our books and reports before you meet with us or any other attorney. If you are looking at other lawyers’ websites we recommend that you look closely to see if they are just calling themselves “experts” or if they are proving it with the quality of information they offer.

Our single most important philosophy is that not every injured person needs an attorney, and we might not be the right attorneys for you.

The second step in your case is to speak with an attorney.  We believe that paralegals have their place in a law office.  But we think it is critical that you speak with a lawyer at your initial meeting with us. To make this as easy as possible we strongly suggest that we just chat over the phone about how we work and what is going on in your case. At that point you should know if you want to go further and meet with us face-to-face.

The third step is to actually meet with an injury lawyer. This meeting is a no obligation opportunity to confirm that we know what we’re talking about. More importantly it lets you feel comfortable with any decision to hire us. It is not a sales meeting in any way – we don’t work that way and we would never try to talk you into hiring us. Because you only get one chance to handle your case properly we want you to be 100% committed to us just as we’ll be 100% committed to you.

At the initial meeting we’ll work together to lay out the goals you have for your case. We’ll then draw a plan for reaching those goals. From that point forward we’ll continue to look at that roadmap to make sure we’re still headed in the right direction for your case.

Unlike many lawyers we have an open door policy with our clients. By that we mean if your question or concern is important enough that you can schedule an appointment to meet with one of our attorneys then we’re going to meet with you. We aren’t going to brush you off with a phone call because we understand that you need to see your attorney on a regular basis.  And while we have a staff of highly-skilled paralegals we believe that you need a lawyer working your file and not a “case manager” or paralegal.