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About J. Jackson Hardison
Joel Jackson Hardison is a partner at Hardison & Cochran in North Carolina. He joined the firm in 2008, transitioning from defending insurance companies in workers' compensation cases to representing injured and disabled workers. His practice covers every aspect of workers' compensation, from initial filings through appeals to federal district court.
Hardison is a North Carolina Bar Board Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law.
He earned his B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and his Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law in 2004. While in law school, he was a member of the Holderness Moot Court team and was named to the Dean's List.
Before joining Hardison & Cochran, he worked for two insurance defense law firms, in Charlotte and Raleigh.
Notable case results include a $3.5 million recovery in federal court for a client paralyzed from the waist down when a tree fell on him while on the job in Mebane, NC. The case was selected by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly as one of the notable cases of 2015.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hardison & Cochran
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A Johnston County jury awarded $3 million to commercial truck driver Keave Bayes after a log fell on him at a logging deck, and John Paul Godwin of Hardison and Cochran, with co-counsel Sanford Thompson, secured the full verdict.
A 4-3 North Carolina Supreme Court decision held that state employees cannot invoke sovereign immunity to block individual-capacity wrongful death claims, arising from the death of an NCSU maintenance worker killed by a pressurized refrigerant flange.
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