{"id":4270,"date":"2021-05-24T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T18:35:31","slug":"answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers to your NC Workers’ Compensation Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and \"Workers' scope of employment?<\/p>\n

The NC Workers’ Compensation laws require insurance coverage to protect trucking operators and trucking owners, even if the owner\/operator is considered to be an “independent contractor.”<\/p>\n

If the operator owner does not have insurance specifically for on-the-job injuries, the motor carrier is required under the law to provide coverage for workers’ compensation claims. “Coverage” is required for subcontractors, intermediate contractors, and principal contractors.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment? The NC Workers’ Compensation laws require insurance coverage to protect trucking operators and trucking owners, even if the owner\/operator is considered to be an “independent contractor.” If the operator owner does not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[292,290,291],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workers-compensation","tag-nc-workmen-compensation-laws","tag-work-comp-insurance","tag-workers-compensation-benefits"],"yoast_head":"\nAnswers to your NC Workers' Compensation Questions — Comp Benefits<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Answers to your NC Workers' Compensation Questions — Comp Benefits\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Answers to your NC Workers' Compensation Questions — Comp Benefits","description":"Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Answers to your NC Workers' Compensation Questions — Comp Benefits","twitter_description":"Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment?","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/"},"author":{"name":"Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4e3537af34ac142fbe1b2564042b7509"},"headline":"Answers to your NC Workers’ Compensation Questions","datePublished":"2021-05-25T02:06:29+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-07T18:35:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/"},"wordCount":682,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","keywords":["NC Workmen Compensation Laws","Work Comp Insurance","Workers Compensation Benefits"],"articleSection":["Workers' Compensation"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/","name":"Answers to your NC Workers' Compensation Questions — Comp Benefits","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","datePublished":"2021-05-25T02:06:29+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-07T18:35:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4e3537af34ac142fbe1b2564042b7509"},"description":"Do trucking companies have Work Comp Insurance? Does it cover injury or illness that takes place during the course and scope of employment?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"caption":"Trucking Accident NC Workmen Compensation Laws"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/answers-to-your-nc-workers-compensation-questions\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Answers to your NC Workers’ Compensation Questions"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/","name":"North Carolina Workers' Compensation News","description":"Published by North Carolina Workers' Compensation News \u2014 Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4e3537af34ac142fbe1b2564042b7509","name":"Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c493d3fa7d61749cd8ca1d7d3e10d1bb854b9f7c3ee1f838a000be11579458a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c493d3fa7d61749cd8ca1d7d3e10d1bb854b9f7c3ee1f838a000be11579458a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c493d3fa7d61749cd8ca1d7d3e10d1bb854b9f7c3ee1f838a000be11579458a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dodge Jones Injury Law Firm"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/author\/dodgejones1\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Trucking-Accident-NC-Workmen-Compensation-Laws.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}