The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday issued two decisions clarifying that an injured worker does not need to obtain pre-approval for attendant care services from the Industrial Commission for the provider of those services to be compensated retroactively.However, the court said that a worker must make a request for approval of the provider's services within a "reasonable time." The high court ordered that two cases − Mehaffey v. Burger King, No. 24PA12, and Chandler v. Atlantic Scrap Processing, No. 35PA12 − be remanded to the Industrial Commission to decide whether eithe...
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