When an employer elects to make payments to an employee for a workers' compensation claim without prejudice to later deny that claim, the employer must show it had reasonable grounds to support initial uncertainty over the claim's compensability, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a published opinion.
The court decided in Bradley v. Mission St. Joseph's Health System, No. COA06-100, 12/19/2006, that Mission St. Joseph's Health System did not demonstrate it had reasonable grounds to file a Form 63 in response to nurse Donna Bradley's claim for workers' compensation benefits.
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