| The purpose of workers’ compensation, is to provide assistance when a worker is harmed (including a worsened preexisting condition) that arises in the scope of employment. This means that anyone personally injured while working or through work-related matters. If payments from workers comp run out and you still need financial help contact our lawyers for options.
Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary awards, eliminating the need for litigation. These laws also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses.
Some laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers in most accidents. State Workers Comp statutes establish this framework for most employment. Federal statutes are limited to federal employees or those workers employed in some significant aspect of interstate commerce.
There are four types of injuries which workers compensation may cover:
- Traumatic physical injuries
- Repeated trauma injury
- Mental injuries
- Occupational disease
WE CAN HELP YOU WITH YOUR WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIM IF:
- You were recently injured
- Your claim is older, even several years old
- You are not receiving income benefits
- Your claim is disputed
- You are unable to work
- You were unable to work but have returned to work
- You have been able to work since your injury
- You are working with restrictions
- You have worked off and on since your injury
- You have been able to work but now cannot
- Your employer is not following your doctor's restrictions
- Your employer's doctor does not agree with your doctor about whether you can work
- A doctor is releasing you to return to work and you feel you cannot work
- A doctor is not listening to your concerns about your injury
- A doctor is not taking care of all of your injuries
The vast majority of workers compensation claims are going to be characterized as a traumatic physical personal injury arising out of an accident. The next most common group of injuries are those cases of repeated trauma.
There is no actual striking or wounding of the body, but small harms occurring over a lengthy period of time. For example, if a worker is required to repetitively insert and pull out pieces of material from machinery thousands and tens of thousands of time over periods of days or weeks, that can result in repetitive injury to the arms, shoulder, neck and back. This puts excessive strain on the soft tissues involved, including muscles, ligaments and tendons.
Often employers in repeated trauma injuries will try to prove that the injury occurred as a result of activity outside of the work place. However, in cases of constant repeated motion at work or an injured worker did not have previous problems and gradually developed this problem while working.
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