How is a Workers Compensation Claim Different from a Personal Injury Claim?
Personal Injury Claim If a victim wants to recover damages against a driver in a car accident or product manufacturer, the victim or his attorneys need to establish third party negligence. In other words, the car driver or the product manufacturer needs to have been at fault. Workers compensation claim and personal injury claim should not be considered one and the same. A willful misconduct of the claimant need not give way for a personal injury claim. A person, who knows the consequences of falling in front of a moving car, cannot deliberately do that so as to enable him to claim for his personal