Denial of Long Term Disability Benefits in Winnipeg Winters A Cold Fact

Slip and fall injuries are the most common type of injury in both Canada and the United States. As a result, this is one of the most common causes of long term disability benefit denial, in Winnipeg and across the country.

Toronto, Canada – December 17, 2016 /PressCable/ —

After an unseasonably warm fall, extreme weather warnings have been announced across most of Canada.

This includes Winnipeg, where temperatures have recently drifted above and below freezing. This sort of weather is the perfect recipe for slip-and-fall injuries.

Not surprisingly, the number of slip and fall injuries related to ice increases during this time of year.

“The risk of personal injury rises in winter due to holiday parties where alcohol (sic) in consumed and winter conditions like snow, ice and slush…increase the risk of car accidents and slip and fall accidents,” says lawyer Michael John Tario.

But with an increased risk of injury during this time of year also comes an increased number of insurance claims made.

Those who have suffered an injury in a slip-and-fall incident are advised to contact a personal injury lawyer. Yellow Pages lists 836 different lawyers in Winnipeg alone. For one such lawyer to help in dealing with a denial of a long-term disability benefits, click here – http://www.moreclients60days.com/pil-winnipeg

While slip and fall injuries are more common in the winter, they are surprisingly common during the rest of the year as well.

According to data from Statistics Canada, 15% of Canadians – more than four and a quarter million – in 2009-2010 suffered some sort of injury that limited their mobility in some way. The vast majority of these were a result of falls, with 63% of seniors, 50% of adolescents, and 35% of working age adults having suffered a slip-and-fall related injury.

Meanwhile, slip-and-fall injuries are the most common cause of hospitalization in the United States as well, with over 8 million people suffering from these injuries.

But, surprisingly, while more ice-related injuries happen during the winter, the number of slip-and-fall injuries in general tends to fall. The season where injuries are most common is the summer with all age groups and genders, with 29.7% of the year’s injuries occurring then versus the winter time’s 25.2%.

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