The social insurance agency lost: the Herniated disc is classified as an accident

" I am very pleased to see that the courts are finally taking to heart what the research says. This will open the door for us to success in several other cases, and for other unions as well, " said Annika Nilsson, the ombudsman is of the IF Metall arbetslivsenhet.

She has been working with the rättsskyddsfrågor of the Carriage, and concludes:

" It's all about 17 years old, and a large number of cases, and I have never seen a gain on the diskbråcket is not caused by any one accident.

as of the annuity in January 2016 at the latest, the Court went on in the same vein, in the spring of 2018, but in december of last year, " said the court of Appeal, in Sundsvall, sweden, yes. The social insurance agency has decided not to appeal and will now have to figure out how much the annuity can be for the 45-year-old former industriarbetaren, who for many years had a job in which he lifted the heavy, and at the same time the knob of the human body.

this case has been of the IF Metall's mission is driven by the LO-TCO Legal aid, is a multidisciplinary law firm within the employment law and work-related injuries.

a Herniated disc, has been the death an accident, the Insurance fund, the advisory physician has consistently pushed the line that the disc herniation is a disease that can arise as a result of their work. We believe that the review of the Ukrainian security service could help, but they've been pushing the same line of though, " says förbundsjurist Tom Aspengren.

as for the medical and social assessment , a public agency that, among other things, makes an independent evaluation of the methods and operations of the health care system. In their report from 2014 says that there is a relationship between the ”manual operation” – to lift, carry, push or pull, and lower back pain.

In the court of Appeal was the Agency's expertise to, among others, to professor of occupational medicine, Anna Rask-Andersen, who, among other things, writes about ”the nine years of extremely heavy lifting”.

the Judgment is not precedent-setting, but I'm hoping that it will set a precedent, nonetheless, the

the judge's ruling was very clear on this: the Industriarbetaren to be only 28 years old when he was hit, which is not to suggest that age has the appeal to make, and he has had a herniated disc, does not have arthritis, there are no other risk factors, and the ”competing causes of damage are available”.

"I've been lost in the court of Appeal in the past, but this time, the lawyers are really taking of, inter alia, the SWEDISH report, and I am very pleased with the response," said Tom Aspengren.

" this Judgment is not precedent-setting, but I'm hoping that it will set a precedent though, we're going to be using it as much as we can. But the question is, how well it falls in with the agency. I'm working on a similar case, now, where is their reasoning the same as in the past, " said Tom Aspengren.

the DN has requested the Insurance office to comment on the verdict, and the answer, if you are going to modify the approach in future cases. The agency's press office, in an e-mail to the waiver, so long as the judgment is not final. < / span> < / span>