North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 11 - INSURANCE › Chapter 23 - INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION › Subchapter A - WORKERS' COMPENSATION RULES › Section .0500 - AGREEMENTS › Section 23A .0501 - AGREEMENTS FOR PROMPT PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) To
				  facilitate the payment of compensation within the time prescribed in
				  G.S.
				  97-18, the Commission shall accept memoranda
				  of agreement on Commission forms. These forms include the Form 21 Agreement for
				  Compensation for Disability, Form 26 Supplemental Agreement as to Payment of
				  Compensation, Form 26A Employer's Admission of Employee's Right to Permanent
				  Partial Disability, Form 26D Agreement for Payment of Unpaid Compensation in
				  Unrelated Death Cases, and Form 30 Agreement for Compensation for
				  Death.
(b) No agreement for
				  permanent disability shall be approved until the relevant medical and
				  vocational records, including a job description if the employee has permanent
				  work restrictions and has returned to work for the employer of injury, known to
				  exist in the case have been filed with the Commission. When requested by the
				  Commission, the parties shall file any additional documentation necessary to
				  determine whether the employee is receiving the disability compensation to
				  which he or she is entitled and that an employee qualifying for disability
				  compensation under
				  G.S.
				  97-29 or
				  G.S.
				  97-30, and
				  G.S.
				  97-31 has the benefit of the more favorable
				  remedy.
(c) After the employer,
				  carrier, or administrator has received a memorandum of agreement that has been
				  signed by the employee and the employee's attorney of record, if any, the
				  employer, carrier, or administrator shall submit the memorandum of agreement
				  within 20 days to the Commission for review and approval. Agreements conforming
				  to the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act shall be approved by the
				  Commission and a copy returned to the employer, carrier, or administrator, and
				  a copy sent to the employee.
(d)
				  Upon submission to the Commission of the executed agreement, the employer,
				  carrier, administrator, or the attorney of record, if any, shall provide the
				  employee, beneficiary, or attorney of record, if any, with a copy of the
				  executed agreement that was submitted to the Commission.
(e) All memoranda of agreement for cases that
				  are calendared for hearing before a Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner shall
				  be addressed to that Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, and filed in
				  accordance with Rule .0108 of this Subchapter. Before a case is calendared, or
				  once a case has been continued or removed, or after the filing of an Opinion
				  and Award, all memoranda of agreement shall be addressed to the Claims Section
				  of the Commission, and filed in accordance with Rule .0108 of this
				  Subchapter.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 97-18;
					 97-80(a);
					 97-82;
Eff. January 1,
					 1990;
Amended Eff. November 1, 2014; August 1, 2006;
Recodified from
					 04 NCAC
					 10A .0501 Eff. June 1, 2018;
Amended Eff. December 1, 2020.