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WORKERS' COMPENSATION DISEASE CLAIMS
Our firm is one of the most well-known in the state for handling occupational disease claims. Occupational disease claims are different than occupational injury claims that occur when a worker accidentally falls, trips, slips, or has an unexpected accident on the job site.
With occupational disease claims, workers develop diseases related to single or repeated exposures to dangerous substances or work circumstances. Our office will immediately provide you with a workers’ compensation specialist who will be able to answer your questions and provide answers on whether you may or may not be entitled to compensation.
Amanda Norton
NC Certified Paralegal
Gennevi Souto
Paralegal
Jessalyn Snider
Paralegal
EXPOSURE-RELATED DISEASE CLAIMS
Most commonly, our firm handles complex workers’ compensation disease claims resulting from exposures to dangerous substances, such as:
- Exposure to asbestos is associated with the development of respiratory distress, asbestosis, lung cancer, or mesothelioma. (Please see Practice Area entitled “Asbestosis and Mesothelioma” for more information regarding asbestos-related diseases.)
- Exposure to silica is associated with the development of silicosis.
- Exposure to benzene is associated with the development of certain types of blood cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.
- Exposure to coal tar pitch is associated with the development of lung, skin (non-melanoma), bladder, and kidney cancers.
- Exposure to mold is associated with the development of respiratory diseases, such as asthma, and hypersensitivity.
- Exposure to carbon monoxide is associated with the development of Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.
- Exposure to other dangerous chemicals, solvents, poisons, dusts, and substances associated with the development of diseases, conditions, and cancers, including lung, blood, bladder, kidney, or skin.
REPETITIVE DISEASE CLAIMS
Besides exposure-related disease, our firm also handles disease claims such as those that are a result of specific jobs, job tasks, or industries that increase your risk, greater than that of the general public, for the development of repetitive diseases and conditions. These include:
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Tenosynovitis
- Epicondylitis
- Synovitis
- Bursitis
- Welder’s diseases, and many other diseases.
Please note that our firm is currently very interested in repetitive disease claims of carpal tunnel syndrome associated with jobs in the manufacturing and processing food factories. Please see section below “What jobs or industries increase your risk of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?”
Please do not hesitate to contact our firm if you think you may have been exposed to asbestos, dusts, chemicals, solvents, substances, poisons, or other particles and have developed cancer and/or occupational diseases as a result, or if you have developed a repetitive disease related to your job tasks.
“Our office will immediately provide you with a workers’ compensation specialist who will be able to answer your questions and provide answers on whether you may or may not be entitled to compensation.”
To obtain a free and confidential review of the facts surrounding an incident or series of events, feel free to call us at 800.849.5291 or email us.
To obtain a free and confidential review of the facts surrounding an incident or series of events, feel free to call us at 800.849.5291 or email us.
OUR attorneys
Mona Lisa Wallace
PARTNER
Founding partner; 45+ years in complex civil and disease/cancer litigation
