Jurisdictional issues can play a major role in workers'compensation claims cases, especially when locations of theaccident, the employer and the claimant are different, writesattorney Keith Richardson on WCI360.com, Web site of the Workers'Compensation Institute.
|For example: If the claimant lives in, say, North Carolina andthe employer has an office in North Carolina, but the accident tookplace outside of North Carolina, does the North Carolina IndustrialCommission have jurisdiction? Not necessarily, Richardson says.
|If the accident took place outside North Carolina, severalquestions must be asked before considering accepting the claim,including what state the claimant's contract of employment was madein; the state in which the employer's principal place of businessis based; and the claimant's principal place of business.
|Check out the full post here, in which Richardson examines some of the more commonsituations arising in jurisdictional disputes.
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