North Carolina S57 amends workers' compensation to cover breakage or damage to eyeglasses and hearing aids as compensable injuries.
North Carolina S57 amends the Workers' Compensation Act to redefine "injury and personal injury" to include breakage or damage to eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures, or other prosthetic devices that function as part of the body. This change applies to injuries arising out of and in the course of employment. However, eyeglasses and hearing aids will only be replaced, repaired, or compensated for if the damage is incidental to a compensable injury.
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