Workers' Compensation – Temporary Total Disability – Extended Benefits Claim – No Watkins Presumption – First Impression
When a disabled worker seeks to extend his temporary total disability benefits beyond the 500-week cap in G.S. § 97-29(b), he no longer has the benefit of the presumption of continuing disability described in Watkins v. Central Motor Lines, 279 N.C. 132, 181 S.E.2d 588 (1971). Instead, he must once again prove that he is
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