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Back injury compensation has become big business due to the ever growing number of claims seeking compensation for back injuries. Back injury is the most common injury in the workplace, and is mostly caused by ordinary everyday work activities. The most prevalent of these activities being lifting heavy objects. Back injuries are also very common in automobile accidents and slips and falls incidences. Many back injuries can be short-lived, but some last for years, and incure medical costs that just keep adding up year after year. Back injury compensation is designed to allow a person who has suffered a back injury, as the result of some form of negligence, to get some relief from their medical cost as well as compensation for pain and suffering.

Fast Facts

  • Back injuries make up almost 20 percent of all work-related injuries.
  • Back injuries cost the United States 20- 50 billion dollars annually.
  • The majority of traffic accidents are caused by driver error.

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