I intended to write a quick article about how workplace accident rates increase every year around the holidays due to increased hours, heavier customer traffic, or racing to get tasks…
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WRITTEN BY RICH BYERS | JULY 2015 Impacting a Worker’s Compensation Attorney Growing up the only child of parents who never graduated high school, both spending nearly three decades as…
I won’t make any bones about the fact that I am critical of our state’s worker’s compensation program, and the administration thereof. That being said, the agency that handles worker’s…
Are you experiencing aggravation from a pre-existing injury (aka “lighting up)? Unless you’re under 25 years old (and maybe still then) you probably have some old injury or complaint from…
Say you’re having back pain. Would that be considered an industrial injury or occupational disease? Let’s start with injury – RCW 51.08.100 says “injury” means a sudden and tangible happening, of…
You just lifted something you have lifted a thousand times over, but this time it’s different. You feel a twinge in your back. (“Twinge”, what a strange word to describe…