Jurisdictional issues can play a major role in workers' compensation claims cases, especially when locations of the accident, the employer and the claimant are different, writes attorney Keith Richardson on WCI360.com, Web site of the Workers' Compensation Institute.
For example: If the claimant lives in, say, North Carolina and the employer has an office in North Carolina, but the accident took place outside of North Carolina, does the North Carolina Industrial Commission have jurisdiction? Not necessarily, Richardson says.
If the accident took place outside North Carolina, several questions must be asked before considering accepting the claim, including what state the claimant's contract of employment was made in; the state in which the employer's principal place of business is based; and the claimant's principal place of business.
Check out the full post here, in which Richardson examines some of the more common situations arising in jurisdictional disputes.
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