There are two types of workers' compensation psychological injuries. One is a purely mental injury where someone may have anxiety or depression as a result of a traumatic event or occurrence. The other and more common type is a depression or anxiety that develops after an employee has a physical injury. Due to pain and physical limitations, depression and anxiety can arise and flow from that physical injury.
Spartanburg Psychological Workplace Injury
Since the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law changed in 2007 the type of proof required to show or establish your work related depression or anxiety is much different. Make sure you get the necessary medical treatment and compensation for your psychological injury. Contact the lawyers at Black, Black & Montgomery, LLC for a free initial consultation to discuss your workers compensation depression, anxiety or mental injury.
Generally in order to recover for a purely mental injury it must be extraordinary circumstances or out of the normal work environment. Generally, depression that arises out of a physical injury does not have to arise out of extraordinary circumstances but rather be causally related to the physical injury.
The key to having success in these cases is being able to prove you have the injury in question and demonstrate that it is a result of your job. We reach out to expert physicians to provide the reports and medical opinions required by South Carolina workers' compensation laws.
To discuss your work-related injury with one of our Greenville repetitive trauma injury attorneys, contact us for a free initial consultation.