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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 97-82

  • Commission: means the North Carolina Industrial Commission, to be created under the provisions of this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2
  • compensation: means the money allowance payable to an employee or to his dependents as provided for in this Article, and includes funeral benefits provided herein. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2
  • disability: means incapacity because of injury to earn the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of injury in the same or any other employment. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2
  • employee: means every person engaged in an employment under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, including aliens, and also minors, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, but excluding persons whose employment is both casual and not in the course of the trade, business, profession, or occupation of his employer, and as relating to those so employed by the State, the term "employee" shall include all officers and employees of the State, including such as are elected by the people, or by the General Assembly, or appointed by the Governor to serve on a per diem, part-time or fee basis, either with or without the confirmation of the Senate; as relating to municipal corporations and political subdivisions of the State, the term "employee" shall include all officers and employees thereof, including such as are elected by the people. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2
  • employer: means the State and all political subdivisions thereof, all public and quasi-public corporations therein, every person carrying on any employment, and the legal representative of a deceased person or the receiver or trustee of any person. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2
  • insurer: means any person or fund authorized under N. See North Carolina General Statutes 97-2

(a) If the employer and the injured employee or his dependents reach an agreement in regard to compensation under this Article, they may enter into a memorandum of the agreement in the form prescribed by the Commission.

An agreement, however, shall be incorporated into a memorandum of agreement in regard to compensation: (i) for loss or permanent injury, disfigurement, or permanent and total disability under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-31, (ii) for death from a compensable injury or occupational disease under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-38, or (iii) when compensation under this Article is paid or payable to an employee who is incompetent or under 18 years of age.

The memorandum of agreement, accompanied by the material medical and vocational records, shall be filed with and approved by the Commission; otherwise such agreement shall be voidable by the employee or his dependents.

(b) If approved by the Commission, a memorandum of agreement shall for all purposes be enforceable by the court’s decree as hereinafter specified. Payment pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(b), or payment pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(d) when compensability and liability are not contested prior to expiration of the period for payment without prejudice, shall constitute an award of the Commission on the question of compensability of and the insurer‘s liability for the injury as reflected on a form prescribed by the Commission pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(b) or N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(d) for which payment was made. An award of the Commission arising out of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(b) or N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(d) shall not create a presumption that medical treatment for an injury or condition not identified in the form prescribed by the Commission pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(b) or N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-18(d) is causally related to the compensable injury. An employee may request a hearing pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-84 to prove that an injury or condition is causally related to the compensable injury. Compensation paid in these circumstances shall constitute payment of compensation pursuant to an award under this Article. (1929, c. 120, s. 56; 1993 (Reg. Sess., 1994), c. 679, s. 3.2; 2005-448, s. 7; 2017-124, s. 1(a).)