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Don’t Think That Your Injury is Too Insignificant for a Workers’ Compensation Claim
There’s a tendency, when you are injured on the job, to believe that your injury must be serious and catastrophic before you should contact a workers’ compensation lawyer or file a claim. That’s not necessarily true. You may have minor injuries that don’t keep you from doing your job that simply heal and go away. But there are also what are known as consequential injuries—injuries that do not occur at the time of the accident, but arise because of some injury you suffered at work. If those consequential injuries prevent you from doing your job or limit what you can do, you have a right to workers’ compensation benefits. Let’s look at an interesting case we handled.
