Can You Get Worker’s Compensation for Obesity?

The National Heart Forum estimates that 37 percent of Americans are obese. This number could rise to 50 percent by 2030. Obesity doesn’t just affect our size. It can cause other health problems, such as high blood pressure or heart attacks, or exacerbate the effects of other injuries, such as a back or knee injury. With the sedentary lifestyle of office work and all these drastic numbers in mind, can you get workers’ compensation for obesity? Work Related Injury While workers compensation laws vary from state to state, generally, you can get workers compensation for an injury that is work related, meaning it was caused or aggravated by your work duties or the conditions of your work place. Simple enough right? Obesity In 2013, The American Medical Association reclassified obesity as …