Work-Related Heart Attacks: You Might Be Entitled to Benefits
Work can be stressful, and stress is one of the leading contributing factors to a heart attack. As a result, some employees who have sustained heart attacks on the job have attempted to claim the attack was work-related. This claim has an important impact because if the heart-attack is viewed as a work-related injury, workers’ compensation benefits can provide payment of medical bills, as well as disability income and other benefits. While there have been past cases in which people were successful in making a workers’ comp claim after a heart attack on-the-job, these types of cases can be very complicated because it can often