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March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Spring is underway here in Charlotte. It’s a time of year when many area residents enjoy walking around the city to observe budding trees, blooming flowers and returning birds. The sights of revitalized nature have a way of lifting spirits that were chilled by winter. Those sights also remind us…
Three killed in high-speed North Carolina highway crash
The loss of young life is especially difficult to accept for those who are left behind. Bright futures full of love, families, careers and more are all taken away in an instant. There are some North Carolina families grappling today with that very painful reality. We’re thinking of the three…
Waiting and waiting for Social Security Disability benefits
From every paycheck you have earned, the federal government dipped in and took a percentage of it to help pay for Social Security Disability Insurance and other societal safety nets. The idea is to provide a limited income to those who are prevented from working by injury or illness. The problem…
Experts: good health reduces risks of on-the-job injury
When business owners get together, one of the things they talk about most frequently is ways in which they can cut costs. Health experts recently told attendees of Business Insurance’s World Captive Forum that owners can cut costs by helping employees to improve their emotional and physical health. When workers…
Behavioral health issues raise risk of workplace injury for women
Over the past several decades, the percentage of women in the paid workforce has steadily increased. With increased participation comes the risk of sustaining workplace injuries that require medical care, time off from the job to recuperate and workers’ compensation benefits. A recent study points out that women who suffer depression,…
Former North Carolina police officer’s wife killed by drunk driver
Many Charlotte residents are familiar with Brunswick County. The popular vacation destination is about a four-hour drive southeast of us. A former Wilmington police officer was in a horrific four-vehicle drunk driving crash there. Three people died in the wreck, including the former officer’s wife and two others. The suspect was arrested…
North Carolina mom and daughter killed in crash enroute to school
A North Carolina mother and daughter were doing what parents and kids do on weekdays: they were heading to school. The 33-year-old mother and her 13-year-old daughter were on their way to middle school in Pembroke, a small town about a two-and-a-half hour drive southeast of Charlotte. They never made…
SSDI claimants with representatives: 3 times as likely to be approved
The Social Security Administration acknowledges that it has a backlog problem. In a recent report, it stated that thousands of SSDI applicants die each year while waiting to hear if their disability benefits claim has been approved. A less publicized admission from Social Security is that SSDI applicants are three…
Defending SSDI and the “disability belt”
The term “disability belt” is often used disparagingly to refer to an area of the United States that includes the western portion of North Carolina, West Virginia, much of Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as a large swath of Arkansas and most of Mississippi and Alabama. Also included in the…
North Carolina workplace injury rate: lower than national average
It is not exactly breaking news to note that the federal government often moves slowly. A few days ago, the U.S. Department of Labor released a report on North Carolina workplace injuries in 2016. While some might dismiss the data as dated, the numbers help us to understand where our state stands…
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