Legal Question in Workers Comp in Pennsylvania

Re: the standard of injury

Since 1972, an injury is all that is required for WC. Not an accident. If the injury (1) arises out of your job and (2) is related o it, you should be covered -even if your lawyer has to fight a while.

If you sustained an exposure to some bad fumes or were in an occupation with repetitive motion requirements which proved injurious, then your date of injury would be your last date of employment. One need not be on the employer's premises to have sustained a compensible Workers' Comp injury.

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Re: the standard of injury

77 P.S. � 411 -- "Injury," "personal injury," and "injury arising in the course of his employment" defined.

1. The terms "injury" and "personal injury," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean an injury to an employe, regardless of his previous physical condition, arising in the course of his employment and related thereto, and such disease or infection as naturally results from the injury or is aggravated, reactivated or accelerated by the injury....