GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 598

SENATE BILL 584

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INTEREST TO RUN ON WORKERS' COMPENSATION AWARDS IN CASES OF APPEALS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 97-86.2 of the General Statutes is amended by rewriting the first sentence to read:

"In any workers' compensation case in which an order is issued either granting or denying an award to the employee and where there is an appeal resulting in an ultimate award to the employee, the insurance carrier or employer shall pay interest on the final award or unpaid portion thereof from the date of the original order, which granted or denied the award, until paid at the legal rate of interest provided in G.S. 24-1."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of July, 1985.