Pre-Existing Medical Condition Lawyers

Pre-Existing Medical Condition Lawyers

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If you were injured while doing your job and can no longer perform your duties, either temporarily or permanently, you could be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, even if you have a pre-existing condition.

The laws applying to pre-existing conditions and workers’ compensation vary depending on your state, however, and employers and their workers’ comp insurance providers are incentivized to routinely deny claims, placing the burden of proof on you. That said, here is a general outline of what you may encounter if you have a pre-existing injury and later injure yourself at work.

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  • Injured on the Job: What Does It Mean If You Have a Pre-Existing Condition?

    If you’re hurt while doing your job, you could be entitled to workers’ compensation regardless of fault — you could have been exposed to dangerous gases, acquired carpal tunnel syndrome, or suffered some other type of on-the-job injury.

    When a workplace injury is connected to a pre-existing condition, though, the waters become murky, and your case can get complicated. You may have to answer some rather in-depth and sometimes confusing questions from doctors, insurance adjusters, and others before your claim will be paid.

    In theory, the goal of these questions is to determine if the new injury is related to your pre-existing condition, and if so, how? If your pre-existing condition was aggravated by a job-related task, it’s a job-related injury and you could receive compensation (although they might toss up hurdles to claim approval anyway). When the pre-existing injury is reaggravated and it’s not clear a work-related task contributed, your claim gets much more complicated.

    Unrelated Pre-Existing Conditions

    Imagine that you injured your elbow in a softball game a few years ago and needed reconstructive surgery. After the surgery and physical therapy, your elbow function returned to nearly 100 percent, and it didn’t affect your ability to perform your job.

    Now imagine that after your elbow has fully healed, you trip and fall over a pallet at work and blow out your knee. These two injuries should be determined to be unrelated and the new injury would be what is called “fully compensable.” In other words, you’d probably eligible to receive the full value of your claim — assuming there weren’t any hurdles in the claims process.

    Partially Related Pre-Existing Conditions

    Now let’s imagine you sustained the same softball injury, but the injury at work involved your elbow. This time, instead of tripping over a pallet, you were lifting a very heavy object, and when you lifted it off the ground, you felt a sharp pain in your elbow, and twisted your back to compensate, causing a lower back strain.

    Now, your workplace injury is related to your previous elbow injury. Consequently, your claim could be more likely to be denied. You’ll likely have to fight tooth and nail to receive all the workers’ compensation benefits you’re entitled to and which you need — you’d require an advocate on your side to get financially whole.

  • Have a Pre-Existing Condition? Here’s What To Do If You Need Help Filing a Workers’ Compensation Claim

    If you’ve been injured at work and your workers’ compensation claim was outright denied, or you don’t think you received the total amount of compensation you’re entitled to because of a pre-existing condition, consider getting help from lawyers with decades of experience helping people fight for their workers’ compensation claims.

    Contact Morgan & Morgan today for a free, no-risk consultation to find out if you are entitled to compensation for your work-related injury.

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