Resourceful Advice About Injuries at Work
If you or someone in your family has been hurt at work, get the answers you need about your options by discussing your situation with a lawyer experienced in both personal injury litigation and Pennsylvania workers' compensation claims. Sometimes you stand to recover under both systems for the same work injury. For a free consultation, contact Huber & Palsir in Philadelphia.
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People who experience their first serious injury at work tend to hear a lot of stories from others who have been through the personal injury or workers' comp process. "You can't sue anybody." "You have to sue someone." "You can probably get total temporary disability." "As soon as you can walk, you have to go back to work." While all the conflicting advice you hear might have been perfectly sound in someone else's case, it's not especially likely that it will apply to yours.
At Huber & Palsir, our goal is to help you recover most money possible from whatever source the law allows. In some cases, that will mean filing a personal injury lawsuit for negligence damages against somebody unrelated to your employer. In other cases, it will mean a workers' comp claim that may or may not be contested or complicated by the insurer's refusal to recognize the nature or extent of your injuries.
Some cases will give you the chance to recover both personal injury damages against a third-party defendant while at the same time collecting workers' compensation. These are very different cases involving different evidence, different procedures, and potentially huge differences in the amount of total compensation you'll eventually recover.
A Huber & Palsir attorney can evaluate the facts of your accident at work, the nature of your injury and prognosis, and the practical challenges that your particular injury will present for supporting your family. In general, if you have the opportunity to file a personal injury lawsuit for an injury at work, you should take it. The damages you stand to recover might be several times greater than the total payout of a workers' comp claim.
We advise and represent clients with job-related injuries of all kinds, including:
- Factory or assembly accidents
- Injuries suffered at loading docks, warehouses or freight terminals
- Construction accidents
- Health care worker injuries in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, or home care assignments
- Professional driver accidents in taxis, limos, vans, buses, construction vehicles or semi tractor-trailers
- Injuries suffered in public employment
- Labor intensive work injuries such as landscapers, steelworkers, sanitation, housekeeping, and hotel/retail store clerks
- Aggravated or recurring injuries
If it appears that your workplace injury might keep you away from your job for more than a year, you might also be eligible for SSDI benefits in addition to your personal injury or workers' comp rights. For a free consultation about your legal options in the aftermath of an accident at work, contact a knowledgeable attorney at Huber & Palsir in Philadelphia.
