Worker's Comp Available for Headboard Headaches!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The attitude in Indiana, the only place this situation would have occurred to me, was that a person was on the clock when doing something for the company and off the clock when not. Otherwise the company would have had to pay me 24 hours a day.

[Svartalf]

How do I know that you are not being paid by the Company?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How do I know that you are not being paid by the Company?

You could ask me?

[maiforpeace]

If your company sends you somewhere, and you catch one there, yes, it's a work related accident.

Only if she was "on the clock".

Dunno US law... but here, if I'm sent to somewhere by my job, say, to audit a customer, or for a training session, and I have an accident at my hotel, it's most definitely a work related one...

maybe she should have sued the hotel for being dangerous too, though... If I had to file suit over a hotel related accident on a work trip, my suit would certainly name both the hotel and my employer.

There's a whole area of law devoted to workmen's compensation. They advertise in the same manner as contingency lawyers, and I believe get paid the same way as well, anywhere from 25-30% of the entire award.

I tend to trust these types of lawyers more because they won't take your case unless they feel strongly they can win the case.

The big cheese of workmen's compensation lawyers on the central coast is Angelina Valle...her mother was a seamstress in a garment factory.

[Svartalf]

How do I know that you are not being paid by the Company?

You could ask me?

So you would answer and then kill me?

For a guy who's deeply depressive, I still have a deep aversion to immediately suicidal behavior.

[Coito ergo sum]

If your company sends you somewhere, and you catch one there, yes, it's a work related accident.

Can you also sue the person who gave it to you?

In the US a workers comp is the exclusive remedy for work-related injuries. It's either attributable to your job, or not. If it is, you get workers comp which tends to only cover your medical and lost wages, whereas injuries caused by someone say, in a car accident, are compensable to a much larger extent.

So, does your workers comp law allow you to double dip? E.g.. - you're on a week-long trip for your employer -- on an off hour, you decide to go out to a bar and have some fun, on the way home a drunk driver hits your car and injures you. Work related injury? If so, is your exclusive remedy through workers comp, or can you get workers comp and sue the pants off the drunk?

[Svartalf]

Well, if I get sent to X, and get the clap there, I have a case because at home, I either have one or more regular patners I trust, or know which hookers to avoid.
away, I didn't know if I could trust her, and I'm allergic to latex.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How do I know that you are not being paid by the Company?

You could ask me?

So you would answer and then kill me?

For a guy who's deeply depressive, I still have a deep aversion to immediately suicidal behavior.

Okay, if we ever meet you won't have to ask.

[Coito ergo sum]

Well, if I get sent to X, and get the clap there, I have a case because at home, I either have one or more regular patners I trust, or know which hookers to avoid.
away, I didn't know if I could trust her, and I'm allergic to latex.

Sounds retarded, but whatever floats the legal boat, I guess.