Independent Contractor Status Wounded in North Carolina
We have been writing for months about the never-ending saga of legislative attempts to remove from North Carolina law a provision in the Workers’ Compensation law that presumes newspaper carriers are independent contractors. This presumption has been very valuable since it was passed almost two decades ago. Since that time, there has not been a single reported independent contractor versus employee case in the Workers’ Comp arena in the State of North Carolina. It has been ve
