Although Georgia's workers' compensation system is supposed to foster an environment where legitimately injured workers can get needed treatment and then return to work, the reality is much different. It has been my experience that workers' compensation practice is just about as adversarial as divorce practice. Often justice and fair play take a back seat to "winning" and efforts by employers insurance companies to avoid paying benefits.
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In our Georgia workers compensation law practice, we regularly see carpal tunnel cases. Carpel tunnel syndrome arises when the muscles in the wrist swell and compress the nerve running down the arm into the hand. When this median nerve gets squeezed, you will experience pain, numbness and tingling in the hands. In severe cases, a patient can suffer permanent nerve damage. Females are more likely than males to develop carpel tunnel syndrome.
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I work at a job where I am using a computer keyboard all day long. Over the past few months, my right wrist started to hurt and get numb at times. I reported my injury on November 28, 2006 to the Human Resouces Manager requesting for a keyboard tray from desk.
The HR Manager told me that it was out of his hands and that I should order a tray through my manager for approval. I asked on several occasions for the tray and my injury started to become more aggravated, so I went to his boss asking him about the status of a computer tray. He told me that the tray was too expensive and I now needed a doctors note in order for me to receive a keyboard tray.
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