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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Case Studies

We take a different approach to talking about cases than many attorneys. Literally hundreds of clients have told us “It’s not about the money.” While, to a certain extent, money is always a factor in every case we believe it is far more important that you understand how we work and think than it is to know we’ve won a case of a million dollars. (For the record: we have, repeatedly.)

What follows are a combination of case descriptions where we write about a problem a client had when they came to us, how we handled it, and how everything ended up. We have also put in some decisions from the North Carolina Industrial Commission. Every one of these represents hard-fought battles where we argued with well-trained and determined professionals on the other side. Remember, whether you are working against an adjuster or a defense attorney you are at a distinct disadvantage: Both of them are professionals who do nothing but personal injury cases or workers’ comp claims. They know the law – and the loopholes. They know exactly what they must do – and what they can get away with. So make your decision to hire an attorney wisely.

That brings up an important issue. Insurance adjusters, whether they are workers’ compensation adjusters or personal injury adjusters, keep records on what attorneys do. The ability to demand the respect of an adjuster is directly related to an attorney’s proven capacity to win cases in court. If an attorney tells you they don’t have to go to a jury trial often or don’t have to appear before the workers’ compensation board regularly, because insurance adjusters always settle cases with them, you should run, not walk, out of the office. It simply isn’t true. Adjusters only pay top dollar settlements to injured people who have attorneys with a demonstrated record of taking tough case to trial or hearings.

If you like the way we think then contact us for a consultation today.

Workers' Compensation

• The Workers' Comp Adjuster Denied a Perfectly Legitimate Claim.
• An Example of a Workers' Comp Adjuster Manipulating the Recorded Statement.
• How a Functional Capacities Evaluation Can Wreck a Claim.
• What Can Go Wrong with a Return to Light Duty Work.
• If You Go Back to Work on Light Duty, Do You Think the Adjuster Will Let the Doctor Take You Out Again?
• A Favorite Trick of Adjuster's: Send the Notice They Want to Cut Your Checks to the Wrong Address. That Way You Cannot Object to It.
• Don't Assume the Workers' Comp Adjuster is Paying You the Right Amount.
• A Real-Life Example of an Adjuster Misusing Vocational Rehabilitation.
• This Illustrates the Options You Have When You Reach Maximum Medical Improvement.