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Repetitive stress injuries don’t happen in a single moment — they develop over time, and Pennsylvania workers’ compensation covers them just the same. If your job in Bucks County has caused carpal tunnel, tendinitis, or any other repetitive use injury, Lerner Steinberg & Associates will fight for the benefits you deserve.
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Unlike a traumatic workplace accident where a single event causes an injury, repetitive stress injuries develop gradually over time from performing the same motions, using the same muscles, or maintaining the same postures repeatedly throughout the workday. By the time the pain becomes severe enough to interfere with work, the underlying damage has often been building for months or years.
Under Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law, repetitive stress injuries are compensable work injuries. There does not need to be a specific accident or incident date. What matters is that the condition was caused or aggravated by your job duties — and that you reported it and filed a claim.
The “date of injury” for a repetitive stress injury in Pennsylvania is typically the date you first became aware that your condition was work-related, or the date you became disabled. Getting this date right is critical — our attorneys ensure it is properly established to protect your benefits.
The most common RSI among office workers, nurses, and assembly line workers throughout Bucks County. Results from repeated wrist and hand movements including typing, scanning, and assembly tasks.
Inflammation of tendons from repetitive overhead work, lifting, or tool use. Common among warehouse workers, healthcare aides, and construction tradespeople in Bucks County.
Caused by repetitive gripping, twisting, or arm extension — not just tennis. Frequently seen in Bucks County manufacturing workers, plumbers, and carpenters.
Repetitive overhead reaching and lifting causes cumulative damage to shoulder tendons. Common among CNAs, warehouse workers, and painters throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.
Repeated bending and lifting at Bucks County distribution centers, healthcare facilities, and manufacturing sites causes cumulative disc and soft tissue damage.
Repetitive gripping and pinching motions affecting hand and wrist tendons. Common among cashiers, data entry workers, and healthcare professionals.
Because repetitive stress injuries develop gradually, establishing the correct “date of injury” is one of the most contested issues in these cases. Pennsylvania law generally treats the date of injury as the date the worker first became disabled or first knew (or should have known) that the condition was work-related. Insurance companies exploit ambiguity about this date to deny or delay claims. Our attorneys work with your treating physicians to properly document the connection between your job duties and your condition and establish the correct injury date.
For the first 90 days after reporting your injury, your employer may require you to see a doctor from their designated list. After 90 days, you have the right to choose your own physician. Understanding this rule and navigating it correctly is important — our attorneys guide you through the process to ensure you receive appropriate treatment from providers who will properly document your condition.
In many cases, a repetitive stress injury and a traumatic injury occur together. For example, a back already weakened by years of repetitive lifting may give way during a single lift, causing an acute herniated disc. In these situations, both the repetitive use injury and the traumatic injury may be compensable. Our attorneys ensure all components of your injury are properly documented and claimed.
Workers’ comp covers all reasonable and necessary medical treatment for your repetitive stress injury, wage loss benefits equal to approximately two-thirds of your average weekly wage while you are disabled, and specific loss benefits if your injury causes permanent loss of function in a body part. If you can return to light-duty work at reduced wages, partial disability benefits compensate for the difference.
Repetitive stress injury claims are among the most aggressively contested by workers’ compensation insurers. Mike Lerner and Ben Steinberg have spent over 34 years handling these cases in Bucks County, understanding every argument insurers use to deny or minimize these claims — and how to defeat them. All cases on a contingency fee basis — no fee unless we win.
