Learn about stress related heart attacks from work and your right to benefits
Stress is your body's response to the demands you make on it. Work stress is both good and bad. On one hand work stress can excite and motivate us and on the other hand, work stress can cause physical and emotional exhaustion including on the job heart attacks and accidents. The problem with the stress response is that the more frequently work stress is activated -- the harder it is to turn off.
Work demands that you face different challenges and obstacles and sometimes the pressure is just too hard to handle. When you feel overwhelmed, under the gun, or unsure of how to meet the demands, stress rears its ugly head.
Causes of stress related heart attack fall into these categories:
- Frustrations are obstacles that prevent you from achieving personal goals. They can be external such as discrimination, an unsatisfying job or internal such as the lack of a desired skill and the knowledge how or inability to learn it.
- Conflicts involve two or more incompatible needs or goals. If you're a working mother, you might feel torn over a job offer that would advance your career but take time away from you family. Conflicts might also among coworkers for preferred days off or hours worked. Your supervisor may demand that you do a task one way when you prefer to do it another way.
- Pressures can stem from the expectations of management or the demands you place on yourself. You may feel pressure to excel at work by your supervisor to work faster, smarter, and meet deadlines at breakneck speed.
Stress related heart attack and workers compensation benefits
If you fall off a ladder at work and break a leg, it's an obvious work-related injury. But having a heart attack at work might not seem so obvious to your employer or worse - your employer's insurance company. You can bet that they will try to prove that you had a pre-existing heart condition.
It's unlikely that your employer will have your best interest at heart.
That is why you should talk to a workers' comp lawyer who put your case in front of the insurance company.
Someone has to fight on your behalf. Contact us so we may evaluate the facts to determine whether or not you have a case. We know how to deal with the complex maze of insurance companies. Don't wait! There is a clock ticking and you could end up with nothing.
Contact us today for a free legal workers' compensation consultation.
