 Lawyer's Story
My
name is Gary Sanguinet. I work exclusively in
the field of workers’ compensation law. I am
the senior workers’ compensation lawyer at
Brown and Crouppen. I want to tell you about
carpal tunnel syndrome and other repetitive
trauma injuries.
Some
people think that to have a workers’
compensation claim you have to have suffered
an “accident”, that you have to have
slipped and fallen or picked up something too
heavy or been injured by a piece of machinery.
All those things could produce work injuries,
of course, but there is also what is known as
repetitive trauma injuries that come from
doing the same thing over and over.
These
injuries come from repeatedly doing something,
over a long enough period of time, that it
eventually causes a failure of the body part
involved. The best known of these types of
injuries is carpal tunnel syndrome, which
affects the hands, wrists and forearms. While
carpel tunnel syndrome is the most common of
these injuries, I have also represented
clients who have injured their backs or some
other part of the body due to repetitive
motions on their jobs.
There
are three things I look for before advising a
client that he or she has a repetitive trauma
case. First, a diagnosis of carpel tunnel or
other repetitive motion injury by a competent
physician. Second, evidence that the job
required the type of stresses that could cause
carpel tunnel and that the client worked long
enough at the job to cause the injury. Lastly,
when the client has had multiple employers, a
determination that we can prove which of the
employers is responsible.
First,
there must be a medical diagnosis of a
repetitive trauma injury. It does not have to
be by the company doctor. In fact, most carpel
tunnel syndrome cases begin with a diagnosis
made by the client’s personal physician.
Second,
the job must be repetitive enough and the
client must have been doing it long enough to
create injury. Tightening one screw probably
won’t cause carpal tunnel syndrome, but
tightening screws for much of the day for an
extended period of time, will.
Third,
if the client has recently changed employers,
the lawyer has to determine which employer is
responsible. This has become a very
complicated area of the law because employers
and insurance companies are always trying to
shift blame for the injury to someone else.
Any employee who has recently changed jobs
should consult a lawyer before proceeding with
a repetitive trauma case.
These
are just the basics of how I approach Carpel
Tunnel and other repetitive motion injuries.
Not to long ago these injuries were rarely
compensated through workers’ compensation.
Today they are on the cutting edge of work
related injuries. How things have changed.
At
Brown and Crouppen we’ve handled thousands
of workers’ compensation cases. We’d like
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Contact Form.
 Hello,
my name is Edward Y. When I developed carpal
tunnel syndrome on my job I thought my
employer and it’s insurance company would
take care of me.
Instead
they denied that my job could have caused the
condition. They refused to provide me with the
surgery I needed to treat my carpal tunnel
syndrome. After being frustrated by them for
almost two months I called Brown and Crouppen.
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 At
Brown and Crouppen we have handled carpal
tunnel and other repetitive motion injuries
for years. We have been successful in getting
fair compensation for injuries that were
diagnosed long after the employee left the job
which caused the injury. If you have one of
these injuries call us now, there is a good
chance we can prove your injury was work
related.
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