About Workers’ Compensation

What is Workers’ Compensation? Do I Need an Attorney?

“Workers’ Compensation” refers to a legal system that protects the rights of workers who become injured while on the job. Each state in the U.S. has its own set of workers’ compensation laws detailing the specific benefits to which an injured person may be entitled. This set of laws details the procedures a worker must follow in order to obtain “worker’s comp” benefits.

Workers’ Compensation (also known as “Workmans’ Comp” or “Workers’ Comp”) laws vary from state to state. In addition to individual state “Workers’ Comp” laws, there are also laws providing for Federal employees as well as workers in specific types of industries that cross state boundaries, such as railroad workers, shipping industry workers, and other transportation and industry workers. A workers’ compensation lawyer is trained to navigate these complex legal systems on behalf of injured workers.

Some of the many injuries our workers’ compensation lawyers have helped address in job injury cases include:
• Injuries to the back and neck
• Injuries to the head
• Repetitive motion injuries
• Injuries requiring surgery
• Injuries rendering a worker permanently or temporarily disabled
• Struck by moving machinery
• Struck by moving vehicle at a construction site
• Injuries resulting from an auto accident while in a company vehicle
• Injuries resulting from falls from scaffolding or other equipment
• Injuries caused by falling debris at a construction site
• Lost a limb due to an accident with factory equipment
• Eye injured from a piece of metal shrapnel

Injury source data taken from NC State Construction Fatalities Data, 2004 and 2005.