The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that an injured worker’s interest in maintaining the privacy of his medical conditions and employment history does not allow him to obtain a judicial order sealing his workers’ compensation case file.
Every year, the North Carolina Industrial Commission releases hundreds of written records from workers’ compensation cases to a publicly accessible and searchable online database, and the records often contain sensitive information about a claimant’s prior jobs, a description of his work injury and its&nb...
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