CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP

A “casual” relationship is what you had with the attractive kid in your biology class in high school. I am not speaking here about “casual”—as it is often mispronounced—but rather about “causal.”

A causal relationship is one of four things you have to prove to win a Workers’ Compensation case. It means that the injury or illness was caused by your work. An example of a medical statement that does not comment on causal relationship:

“After lifting heavy cement bags at work for three hours, David sustained a heart attack.” Workers’ Comp would say, Uh- uh: no good. Not acceptable. An example of a medical statement that does comment on causal relationship: “After lifting heavy cement bags at work for three hours, David sustained a heart attack.

In my medical opinion the lifting of the heavy bags of cement at work played a part in, and contributed to, David’s heart attack.” Workers’ Comp would say, That is a good statement of causal relationship. The bottom line: The heart attack has to be found causally related by the judge to be covered by Workers’ Comp.

See the difference? That is causal relationship in a nutshell. Generally, a medical report is no good in workers’ comp unless it contains a statement of causal relationship. Accident, Notice and Causal Relationship Accident, Notice and Causal Relationship (ANCR, or for occupational disease, ODNCR) is the acronym for the things an employee has to prove to win the case.

If the judge establishes WORKERS’ COMP IN NY MADE SIMPLE ANCR, then your case was officially determined to be covered by Workers’ Compensation.

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