Can an Occupational Disease Such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome be Covered by Workers’ Compensation in North Carolina? Edelstein Payne offers Free Case Evaluations
https://raleighworkerscompensation.com In this video, attorney M. Travis Payne explains: "There are really two different types of medical problems that can arise on the job that are covered by workers compensation. One is injury by accident. The other which is more difficult factually and medically is an occupational disease. Occupational diseases are often what is called "repetitive motion claims". Someone who has typed on a keyboard for 20 years, and ends up with carpal tunnel syndrome in both their hands and wrists. Someone who has done the same motion on an assembly line. 200 times a minute with their leg, and does that for several years and their knee gives out. There's no accident there, but those cases can be compensable as workers' comp cases. It requires very strong medical testimony from the treating doctors. If you have such a situation, and you have submitted a claim to workers' comp and it has been denied, and you want a free consul...