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Compensable Injury In Back Claims, John H. Small

Cleveland State Law Review

This article is the product of many years uncertainty and resulting unhappiness in advising clients, compensation insurers and their claims representatives-in their handling of back claims, and in the writer's own preparation and trial of such proceedings.No doubt this situation has been intensified by the fact that North Carolina is in the very small minority of jurisdictions limiting compensability by requiring an accident as a condition precedent, and yet recognizing this handicap, seeking exceptions where it could, to the accomplishment of justice at the cost of confusion.