How Injury Solicitors Can Help with Work Accident Claims

Computers are ever increasingly more important in the workplace, reflecting this fact is the statistics for accident at work claims. More than ever these claims are attributable to computers.

Repetitive strain injury ('RSI') is a common work related injury, however is a difficult claim to make. There has firstly been a difference of opinion between medical experts both over diagnosis and also the cause of the some of the symptoms employees claim to experience as a result of repetitive work.

The main hurdle is proving how the RSI happened. Obviously a very large percentage of people nowadays have computer access at home making it more difficult to isolate the injury to computer use at work.

The downside for employees are therefore two-fold: you could rule out an injury claim because you are still in denial over the condition yourself or because you are not aware of all the facts.

RSI can present itself in different ways, the most frequent are tendinitis, carpal tunnel and vibration white finger. Common symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome include tingling, loss of feeling in fingers, pain in the hand and a loss of grip strength. Pain can spread up the arm as far as the shoulder. Employee surveys have shown that as many as 66% of office workers will suffer from RSI at some point, but more than likely they will not know that they can claim compensation.

Recent increases in RSI cases have coincided with an increase in working on the move. Regular travellers can scarcely fail to have noted that on virtually every train or bus, there is someone hard at work on their laptop, PDA or Blackberry. They may not realise that the risk of RSI is increased by prolonged use and made still more likely when using smaller and closer-situated buttons.

Experienced injury solicitors are willing and able to help you with work accident claims for personal injury compensation. Many do offer conditional fee arrangements (or no win no fee as they are better know) and will tell you that if you have had an injury which was not your fault, in the last 3 years, you can claim damages for the injury and any loss of earnings caused by it.

Specialist injury solicitors understand that the important point is not to look purely at the extent of your symptoms. It is irrelevant how serious your injury is, what matters is that you did not cause it and therefore you should be able to claim damages.


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Bonallack & Bishop are specialist Injury Solicitors. If you need advice on work accident claims contact one of their lawyers today. Tim Bishop is senior partner at the firm, responsible for all major strategic decisions. He has grown the firm by 1000% in 13 years and sees himself as a businessman who owns a law firm.