Occupational Disease

When your job causes a chronic ailment that prevents you from working, you are suffering from an occupational disease. Occupational diseases are covered by South Carolina workers’ compensation benefits, but there may be other legal option available to you if their was negligence involved. When the chronic condition only becomes noticeable over time, or when an employer questions the source of the occupational disease, it can make obtaining workers’ comp benefits more difficult. Insurance carriers often take the position that the job could not have caused the occupational disease.

If you have an occupational disease, it is important to get medical treatment and to make a claim for workers’ compensation. In many cases, it may also be necessary to talk to an experienced workers’ compensation attorney. The Clore Law Group in Charleston protects the right of injured workers.

South Carolina Occupational Disease Law

When employers and insurance carriers cannot see an injury, they may question how the injury was caused and whether it was a workplace injury. The Clore Law Group LLC has helped many workers establish the cause of an occupational disease and obtain the benefits needed for medical treatment and lost wages.

In South Carolina, the disability or death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease is treated as an injury by accident, and the employee, or in the case of death, the deceased’s dependents, may be entitled to compensation. A disease may be recognized as an occupational disease only if it is caused by a hazard recognized as peculiar to a particular trade, process, occupation, or employment as a direct result of continuous exposure to normal working conditions. In addition to occupational diseases, injury from harmful exposures to ionizing radiation is also defined for particular attention under the Workers’ Compensation Act.

They have helped workers with carpal tunnel syndrome caused by forceful repetitive work such as hammering nails into roofing materials. They have represented workers dealing with the effects of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS), a serious nerve condition brought on by a sprain or pulled muscle that caused compression of nerves in the neck and shoulder. Even a relatively small cut can be the source of devastatingly painful CRPS or RSD.

Contact a Charleston Occupational Disease Lawyer

Call The Clore Law Group today at 843-722-8070 for a free case evaluation with an experienced workers’ compensation attorney. You can also tell them about your occupational disease by filling out the e-mail form to the right.