For four decades, unions and the lawyers who handle employee claims for workplace injuries have asked the General Assembly to allow compensation when an injury is caused by repeated stresses over time, in addition to when injuries result from a single, identifiable accident.
But there could be a change this year. Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, is proposing to expand workers’ compensation coverage to repetitive stress injuries.
Virginia is the only state where workers’ compensation insurance — the coverage that pays for medical care and lost wages when a person is injured or dies at work — does not cover these repetitive stress injuries.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
