Are Aggravations of Old Injuries Covered Under Workers’ Compensation?

I want to talk today to Pennsylvania workers about aggravation of an underlying condition. In Pennsylvania, when you aggravate a preexisting condition, whether it happened playing high school sports, whether it happened in a car accident originally, or whether you’re just getting old. If you aggravate that preexisting or degenerative condition because of your job, the aggravation is a compensable workers’ compensation injury in Pennsylvania.

Almost every week, we hear from employees who will say, my knee is killing me. I go up and down steps all day at work, and my left knee’s killing me, and my doctor tells me that doing my job has aggravated arthritis in my knee. That is a work injury in Pennsylvania. The employer won’t tell you that it is. Insurance companies surely won’t tell you that it is. But in Pennsylvania, when you aggravate an underlying condition, no matter what the underlying condition came from, if the aggravation came from work, then it’s compensable under our law.

https://www.wwdlaw.com/offices/If you have questions about aggravation injuries or anything else regarding Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation, please do not hesitate to contact the Workers’ Compensation Department at our firm.