Hurt On The Job By A Third Party? What Are Your Rights?

If you are injured in an accident on the job in North Carolina or South Carolina, and that injury is caused by a third party, your company’s workers’ compensation insurance company is not relieved of its obligations under the law.  If you are hurt on the job by a third party, your company’s workers’ compensation insurance company still must provide medical care, weekly benefits if you are written out of work, and a settlement if you have a permanent injury, scarring or disfigurement, or other impairment.  Once your workers’ compensation case is concluded, you can then seek compensation from the third party that hit you.

For example, if you are working inside your company building and a third party drives through the building and strikes you causing you to suffer a broken leg, your company’s workers’ compensation insurance company must step in first to take care of you.  When your workers’ compensation case is concluded you would go after the third party driver’s liability insurance company.  But, keep in mind, your company’s workers’ compensation company is given a lien by both North Carolina and South Carolina law to recover from the third party liability insurance company for what they paid out on you, the injured worker’s behalf. Navigating this scenario can be very confusing, and intimidating.

Tippens & Zurosky is available to serve both your auto accident and workers’ compensation needs, and can help you if you have been injured on the job by a third party.  Tippens & Zurosky has represented people involved in auto accidents, or hurt on the job in North Carolina and South Carolina for nearly twenty years.  Let us answer any of your questions regarding any automobile accident, or work-related injury.  Call us toll free at (877) 372-3580, or 704-343-0018 to schedule a consultation so that we may assist you. 

Injured At Work Due to a Co-Workers Joke? You May Have a Case.

The Joke Was On You At Work – Can You Recover If You Got Injured?

Since the time human beings have been on the planet, and been engaged in some sort of employment, there have always been those instances where one co-worker for whatever reason decides to play a joke on another co-worker.  The examples are many from the simple pulling out the chair in the meeting room as the person goes to sit down, to the complicated booby trap in the storage facility, to the knocking over of the co-worker occupied portable toilet at the construction site.  But, what happens if you are that innocent co-worker and get injured in the process?

The laws of both North Carolina and South Carolina have generally held that the innocent victim who gets injured by this “horseplay” has a compensable workers’compensation case.  The theory behind holding these cases as compensable is that being the subject of workplace “horseplay” is a recognized hazard of employment.  Of note, the courts of both states have frowned on the aggressor of the “horseplay” who injures himself in failed “horseplay” on another in certain circumstances.

If you have been injured in an automobile accident, or hurt on the job by “horseplay,” please reach out to our firm so we can put our years of experience to work for you.  Tippens & Zurosky has knowledgeable, experienced attorneys who can fight for your rights if you have been injured on the job, or in an automobile accident in North Carolina, or South Carolina.  Call us toll-free at 877-372-3580, or at 704-343-0018, for a free consultation.  Let us help you!