{"id":10824,"date":"2020-08-05T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/?p=10824"},"modified":"2020-08-05T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:58:37","slug":"moving-beyond-workers-compensation-for-construction-site-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2020\/08\/05\/moving-beyond-workers-compensation-for-construction-site-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Beyond Workers\u2019 Compensation for Construction Site Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Atticus N. Wegman<\/a><\/p>\n

Oftentimes when individuals are injured on a construction site, they are told that their sole remedy for compensation is through a workers\u2019 compensation claim with their employer\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation insurance carrier. This is known as the workers\u2019 compensation exclusive remedy.<\/p>\n

Such compensation, however, does not include compensation for pain and suffering or emotional distress, which can be ten times, one hundred times, or more in comparison to the value of the benefits received in a workers\u2019 compensation case.<\/p>\n

Where injuries occur on a construction site due to the fault of another party such as a third-party subcontractor, an individual is entitled to pursue worker\u2019s compensation benefits\u00a0and<\/u>\u00a0compensation from third parties, concurrently.<\/p>\n

Upon the resolution of both cases, assuming benefits were secured from the worker\u2019s compensation insurance carrier and compensation from\u00a0the third-party, the individual will be required to repay the amount of the benefits received to the worker\u2019s compensation insurance carrier to prevent double recovery of medical expenses and lost wages.<\/p>\n

In this setting, our Orange County construction accident attorneys<\/a> aggressively work to negotiate and ultimately reduce any amount owed to the worker\u2019s compensation insurance carrier to ensure maximum net recovery to the client. Many times, this will result in a full waiver of any amounts owed to workers\u2019 compensation insurance companies. If you have any questions about this process and how we can help, please reach out to our Orange County personal injury attorneys<\/a> immediately.<\/p>\n

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By Atticus N. Wegman Oftentimes when individuals are injured on a construction site, they are told that their sole remedy for compensation is through a workers\u2019 compensation claim with their employer\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation insurance carrier. This is known as the workers\u2019 compensation exclusive remedy. Such compensation, however, does not include compensation for pain and suffering… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}