Believe it or not we do not charge anything for this! Yes! Please call us. We would much rather talk to you now and give you some advice than have disaster strike and you have to call us later. Most of the time we can have you speaking with an attorney who has been certified by the State of North Carolina as a specialist in workers’ compensation within just a few minutes. Less than 2% of all attorneys have that certification by the way… So call us! One of our staff will take a few notes and get a Board Certified Specialist on the phone. We are so dedicated to answering questions that even the two founders of the firm, Todd Oxner and Chip Permar, spend a good portion of their day giving advice to injured people just like you.

We work on a contingency fee basis. You may have heard this term before or heard a lawyer on television say, “we don’t get paid if you don’t get paid.” A contingency fee means something has to happen in order for us to get a fee. That something, the contingency, is you getting paid. So if your claim is denied and you aren’t getting anything then we don’t get paid until and unless you get paid. If you don’t get paid then you don’t owe us a fee. It’s as simple as that… there’s no risk to you.

If your claim is accepted and you’re getting paid then our fee is based on the permanent award at maximum medical improvement or a settlement. There are other less common contingencies like you receiving Social Security Disability with an offset or receiving temporary partial disability.

The Industrial Commission has to approve all of our fees. They normally approve a fee of 25% — and although some firms do, we never ask for more than 25% of your overall settlement. And other than on disputed or litigated benefits we don’t take fees on temporary benefits.