If you have suffered an injury at work or on the job, you may be entitled to receive additional benefits through workers compensation. In North Carolina, this may include time lost from work, disability (full or partial), and medical bills.
BOONE—Workers’ compensation is a required protection available to all workers in North Carolina, but is the system working?
Appalachian State University’s Brantley Risk and Insurance Center in the Walker College of Business will host a symposium focusing on worker compensation issues Aug. 1 and 2 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Winston-Salem.
The symposium, “North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation System Today: Is the ‘Compensation Bargain’ Still Working for Both Employers and Employees in Our State?,” is designed for employers, insurance industry professionals and lawmakers. Registration is $129 if received by July 10 and $149 after July 10. Continuing education credits will be available for insurance industry employees.
To register, or for more information, visit http://insurance.appstate.edu/
“Workers’ compensation involves a large amount of money and resources. This conference will look at the current workers comp system to determine if it is working and if there are areas for improvement,” said conference organizer Dr. David C. Marlett, Chair of the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance in the Walker College of Business.
The symposium will feature remarks from Robert P. Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute; N.C. Department of Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin; Mike Plavnicky, CEO of Montgomery Insurance; and N.C. Senator Doug Berger.
“The conference will provide a perspective from all the different stakeholders involved in workers’ compensation. We will have attorneys who represent both plaintiffs and defendants, economists, regulators, insurers, agents and employers who are self insured,” Marlett said.
“The original intent of the workers’ compensation system was that employers would cover medical care and lost wages for injured workers, and injured workers who were able would return to work upon recovery. There was no question of fault or claims of negligence,” Marlett explained. “This balanced approach was called the ‘compensation bargain’ and was an efficient, effective system that did not necessitate attorneys or other outside parties, but rather worked simply between employers and employees. This symposium seeks to examine the state of the current workers’ compensation system in North Carolina, to see if it remains the ‘compensation bargain’ it was intended to be.”
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