Leto Copeley gave a short presentation this morning to lawyers participating in the annual conference of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice. She explained how the Industrial Commission decides how much an employer needs to pay an injured worker when the worker didn’t work for the employer very long, or was a seasonal worker, before getting hurt. She also talked about the case from the Court of Appeals that says when a worker gets mesothelioma and can’t work, the maximum amount of benefits for the worker is the maximum for the year they became disabled, not the maximum for the year that they stopped working for the employer where they were stricken with the disease.
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