Defending Against Workers’ Compensation Claims for Unexplained Injuries
It can be a disheartening fact of life for employers that, even when they do everything right and follow all applicable safety rules and regulations to the letter, employee injuries can still happen. It is also often frustrating that those injuries, even in the absence of any wrongdoing by the employer, will result in workers’ compensation claims that can adversely impact the employer in a variety of ways. Is there anything employers can do to defend themselves against those claims involving injuries that seem to have just happened with no apparent explanation or associated hazard as the cause? Yes, actually—if the injury was the result of an idiopathic cause.
Under Ohio Workers’ Compensation law, idiopathic injuries are generally not compensable.