A young flight attendant was injured when lifting an aircraft door. She suffered a severed longhead biceps tendon and had surgery using orthopedic hardware for this SLAP tear. However, some of the orthopedic hardware became loose, necessitating another operation on her right shoulder. The airline’s workers’ comp insurance company denied the treatment, and her weekly…
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If you work as an airport luggage loader or terminal porter, a back injury could make you eligible for workers compensation. For example, under the Virginia workers compensation law, a sudden accidental injury can form the basis of a comp claim. A workers comp claim can cover work-related medical treatment, partial wage loss, and permanency…
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In order to control the cost of medical care, airline workers’ compensation insurance companies will try to force injured pilots and other flight crew members to see the carrier’s hand-picked doctors. That way, the workers’ compensation insurance company for the airline can try to influence the duration of treatment, extent of testing, and other modalities…
Continue readingWhile workers’ compensation is considered a “no-fault” system, there are instances where the culpability of the injured worker is examined. In airport injury cases, normally the negligence of the injured worker is often not an issue. Intentionally inflicted injuries are a topic for another day. A flight attendant or ground crew member can be clumsy…
Continue readingAirline pilots or captains injured during the preflight inspection are entitled to Workers’ Compensation benefits. Even though the airline employee has not yet started “flying” the jet, the preflight inspection is part of the required duties. An injury “in the course and scope” of the job can be compensated if there is an injury causing…
Continue readingWhen an airline employee is injured, the insurance company or their defense lawyer will want to see medical and other records — not only from the date of the accident, but records going back many years. Why ? Dulles Airport area injury lawyer Doug Landau was in court this week on just such a case.…
Continue readingFolks who travel a lot — either for their job, or pleasure, or both — should be aware of the perils of flying post-surgery. According to an article in The Washington Post, doctors typically recommend no flying for four weeks after any surgery since during this time, the body’s natural blood clotting ability goes into…
Continue readingWhen we were kids, there were always arguments about who got to “go first.” But at the airport, this question takes on great importance. With large jets, small luggage tugs, turbo props and fuel trucks all using the same surface area, air travelers wonder how chaos is avoided when there are no “aircraft traffic cops”…
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