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Was Your Case Denied Because You Weren’t Sure Exactly When You Hurt Your Back?

If you injure your back on the job, the law requires you to have been injured in a “specific traumatic event,” which is defined as injuring yourself as a direct result of the work assigned to you such as lifting up a box, or pallet.  The law does not, however, require you to know the exact hour, or even day that the injury happened.  But, some employers and their workers’ compensation insurance companies have a rather different take on the law.

We hear of injured workers getting their workers’ compensation claims denied simply for not knowing the exact second, minute, or hour they hurt their back lifting up a box.  Literally, the injured worker was not looking at his watch while lifting the box, and tried to keep working through it the rest of his shift.  When he couldn’t give the exact time he was lifting the box that injured his back, his case was denied.  His case should have been accepted by simply reporting to his supervisor that he lifted a box, and felt pain in his back.     

Don’t let your company, or the workers’ compensation insurance company, tell you what the law is on back injuries!  Call Tippens & Zurosky so that we may help you get the answers you need about your workers’ compensation case.  Tippens & Zurosky has represented people involved in auto accidents, or hurt on the job in North Carolina and South Carolina for nearly twenty years.  Let us answer any of your questions regarding any automobile accident, or work-related injury.  Call us toll free at (877) 372-3580, or 704-343-0018 to schedule a consultation so that we may assist you today.