Take a moment and picture a typical workers’ compensation injury. What you probably did not picture was the violent assault of vibrating sound waves upon the delicate structures within the inner ear. In fact, workers exposed to hazardous noise within the workplace do not generally associate their loss of hearing to a work-related injury for which they may be entitled
One of the most challenging areas in workers’ compensation is psychological injuries and their relation to physical injury. Imagine the effect of an injury – whether minor or catastrophic – on a person struggling with anxiety or depression or on someone who had never been injured previously and suddenly finds their life turned upside down without resources to cope. In
Take a moment and picture a typical workers’ compensation injury. What you probably did not picture was the violent assault of vibrating sound waves upon the delicate structures within the inner ear. In fact, workers exposed to hazardous noise within the workplace do not generally associate their loss of hearing to a work-related injury for which they may be entitled
One of the most challenging areas in workers’ compensation is psychological injuries and their relation to physical injury. Imagine the effect of an injury – whether minor or catastrophic – on a person struggling with anxiety or depression or on someone who had never been injured previously and suddenly finds their life turned upside down without resources to cope. In
