A pre-existing condition can affect a Tulsa workers compensation claim in Oklahoma.
In fact, many insurers will attempt to deny an Oklahoma workers compensation claim if a person is injured on the job in the very same area of his or her body in which he or she suffered a previous injury.
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For example, a workers compensation insurer will not want to compensate an office worker for a back injury that originated when he fell off a ladder while painting his house, even though he argues that lifting heavy boxes of files in the offices aggravated the injury.
So what must one prove in order to receive Tulsa workers compensation benefits with a pre-existing condition?
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First, if you can show that your employment aggravated the pre-existing condition, you are entitled to Oklahoma workers compensation benefits for the new injury.
Of course, you cannot claim aggravation of the old injury from your employment if your physician told you to not to perform certain tasks to aggravate your injury but you did so anyway. If you disobeyed doctor’s orders and purposefully did something you knew would aggravate the old injury, you are not entitled to Tulsa workers compensation benefits.
In our example of the house painting injury and the office worker, the injured worker cannot claim entitlement to Oklahoma workers compensation benefits from lifting the file boxes if his doctor told him not to lift anything more than 10 pounds.
However, if the doctor never advised the office worker against lifting and his employer required him to lift those file boxes, then the office worker has a promising workers compensation claim for aggravation of a pre-existing condition.
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To find out you might be entitled to compensation for injuries that resulted from an aggravation to a pre-existing condition, contact the Tulsa workers compensation attorney at the Personal Injury Law Office of Tulsa today.
For a free, no-obligation consultation, call (918) 924-5528 or send your question using the email form on this page.
