What happens when an employer and its workers’ compensation insurer deny a claim, then face a wrongful death tort suit, then attempt to have the comp claim reinstated, going so far as to pay weekly wage amounts to the deceased worker’s husband?
In the case of a North Carolina furniture maker and FFVA Mutual Insurance Co., it results in sanctions imposed by the state Court of Appeals.
The furniture company’s “appeal is ‘not well-grounded in fact,’ is ‘not warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law,’ and has been taken ‘to harass [and] cause unnecessary increase in th…