Repetitive Work Injuries

If a person over-uses the areas around their joints, they may experience what doctors call a repetitive strain injury, or RSI. Repetitive strain injuries affect one’s muscles, nerves or connective tissue called tendons. These injuries develop when a person makes the...

It is natural to think that to have a legal claim for a work-related injury, the injury must be major or serious, but that it not always true. California law allows cumulative trauma claims for cumulative trauma injuries sustained in the workplace. What is cumulative...

They are many different activities that people in California do throughout their lives. Some of the activities do not involve much physical exertion, while others can be very difficult on the body. Generally, when people are hurt it is because they did something such...

Airports around the country are seeing more traffic as an increasing number of people feel safe to travel during this time of COVID-19. A boost in the number of people vaccinated for the virus has some trying to regain a sense of normalcy. And part of that normalcy...

Workplace injuries occur too often, putting the employee in a position where they suffer both pain and a loss of income. When they happen, employers and insurance companies should be there to take care of their employees; unfortunately, sometimes they can add to the...

Repetitive stress injuries can have as serious an impact on workers as other types of workplace injuries. Workers should be familiar with the different types of repetitive stress injuries and the help available to victims. Types of repetitive stress injuries...

These days it is becoming increasingly common for people in California to work from home remotely.  Prior to the current global health crisis only 6% of workers in the U.S. worked from home. By May 2020, over one-third of U.S. workers worked from home. However, many...

Filling out documents, providing notification to employers and insurance companies and making a doctor’s appointment are important procedures after a worker suffers an injury at work. In addition to meeting workers’ compensation requirements, however, it important...

Each year, approximately 350 people lose their lives while at work in California. And a recent study reveals a handful of occupations are responsible for the majority of these deaths. Workers' compensation experts generally agree that logging is one of the deadliest...

Musculoskeletal disorders comprise the largest group of work-related injuries and are behind 30% of all workers' compensation costs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The direct cost of MSDs on U.S. companies, according to the CDC, is some $50 billion....