Were talking about, workers’ comp as it really and I guess this is sad that that’s what’s in my social media feed is other lawyers talking about injury claims. But they were talking about just, in essence, being tired or worn down, your body being worn down over time, and you can make a claim for that.
And I guess. I’ve been a lawyer for 25 years. I haven’t really seen that before. Is that a new thing in workers’ comp? That, that now people are there’s new doctors who are saying, or new, journals that, you know, articles have been written about that? Yeah, so I mean, the occupational exposure theory has been around for quite some time.
I think it’s more so that people are becoming a bit more aware of it. For a long time we had a, a big difficulty kind of getting doctors to understand this qualifies as a work injury, even though there was no specific incident. Now the next question is what are the damages? Yeah.
If there’s, if they’re just feeling worn down, there’s not much you’re gonna be able to do with that. But if it, you know, if it’s a repetitive type thing that they’re doing for the employer and they need a rotator cuff surgery. That’s certainly something they could qualify.
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