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Feb 23, 2018

NFL and Concussion Facts – What About Bicycle Riders?
NFL and Concussion Facts – What About Bicycle Riders?

Concussion, CDC, Traumatic Brain Injury

NFL and Concussion Facts – What About Bicycle Riders?

By Leonard Jernigan|February 23rd, 2018|Concussion, CDC, Traumatic Brain Injury|Comments Off on NFL and Concussion Facts – What About Bicycle Riders?

Today's post comes from attorney Leonard T. Jernigan, Jr. NFL and Concussion Facts – What About Bicycle Riders? The National Football League (NFL) is concerned about concussions and they should be. I recently attended a program at Duke Law School (https://law.duke.edu/sports/headtrauma/) on Head Trauma in Football that mentioned the concerns parents have about [...]

Feb 16, 2017

Opioid Task Force, Recent Studies, and CDC Opioid Recommendations
Opioid Task Force, Recent Studies, and CDC Opioid Recommendations

CDC, centers for disease control and prevention, chronic pain, Health, opioid, task force, Uncategorized, work comp, Workers' Compensation

Opioid Task Force, Recent Studies, and CDC Opioid Recommendations

By Kristina Brown Thompson|February 16th, 2017|CDC, centers for disease control and prevention, chronic pain, Health, opioid, task force, Uncategorized, work comp, Workers' Compensation|0 Comments

The North Carolina Industrial Commission recently joined many other states (i.e. Massachusetts) in tackling the issue of opioids in the workers'’ compensation cases by creating a Workers’ Compensation Opioid Task Force. The goal of the task force is to “study and recommend solutions for the problems arising from the intersection of the opioid epidemic [...]