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Can I Receive Workers’ Compensation If My Condition is Pre-existing?
Findgreatlawyers.com is a free service, run by Illinois lawyers, to find an attorney or get guidance on any Illinois legal matter including workers compensation. We have literally helped people with work injuries in every county in Illinois. From Rockford to Champaign down to Carbondale and everywhere in between we can help. When you contact us you will speak to a lawyer that will answer your questions and if necessary, refer you to an independent work injury lawyer that fits your needs. If you would like our help please call us at (312) 346-5320 or (800) 517-1614. For general information about pre-existing conditions and Illinois work injury claims please read on.
On a daily basis we are contacted by people who have been injured working on the job in Illinois. Many people that we are able to help didn’t even know that they could pursue an Illinois workers’ compensation claim because their problems were pre-existing.
Under Illinois law, if your job causes, aggravates or accelerates an injury you are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. This is true even if your condition is pre-existing. As long as your job furthered your injury and a credible doctor will state that in writing, the lawyers we know and recommend should be able to secure benefits for you.
For example, we recently helped a man who two years before he called us had back surgery. He was essentially treatment free and all better when he slipped on ice and landed hard on his back. After that happened he started treating again with a doctor. This man had a severe pre-existing condition and weighed in excess of 300 pounds. He was still able to get Illinois workers’ compensation benefits because under Illinois law your employer "takes you as they find you."
In another example, a woman that called us had previously been treated for carpal tunnel and wore a brace on her wrist. After working back to back 14 hour days she had a flare up and had to seek medical treatment. She was in Champaign and the Urbana workers’ compensation lawyers we referred her to were able to secure her workers’ compensation benefits.
If you have a pre-existing condition that may have been made worse by your job you may be able to receive work injury benefits. We encourage you not to listed to non-lawyers about your rights in this situation. If you would like us to analyze whether or not you may have a claim or guide you in what you need to do to prove it, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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