How do worker’s compensation and personal injury work together?
While, sometimes, a case can be related to worker’s compensation without being a personal injury case, the two often go together. For example, a case where a salesperson gets into a car wreck while driving from place to place for work is both a worker’s compensation case and a personal injury case. Attorney Wayne O’Bryan is very knowledgeable about the interplay between worker’s compensation law and personal injury law.
If you or someone you love has been injured on the job, be sure to contact Richmond personal injury lawyer Wayne O’Bryan at (800) 222-4189.
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“Many times they might not work together at all. If you are a roofer and you fall off the roof, that’s going to be worker’s compensation but people might not know. They just think they’re hurt. They don’t think hurt at work. Then the same with some injuries that might happen at the workplace. It might be a defective equipment or something and it might even not technically be worker’s comp.
However, the most common interaction, and we’ve had these cases with Wayne, and again it’s very nice to have someone who knows how the interplay of personal injury and worker’s comp go together. Worker’s comp have leans on the personal injury claim and you’re trying to negotiate and trying to get a good worker’s comp settlement as well as a person injury settlement.
One of the more common integrative ones is like a salesperson going from job to job in their care, and being in a car wreck. That would be the most common one, would be automobile accidents where the person’s driving the car due to work.”