Work-related accidents are unique among personal injury cases. Oftentimes, injured workers are entitled to compensation regardless of whether they or other people were to blame for their injuries. This is because workers’ compensation is a “no-fault” system. Meaning that if a full-time or part-time employee is eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, they may file a claim for these benefits and receive them even if they were somehow at fault for their injuries. The only truly notable exceptions to this rule for otherwise-eligible employees are accidents involving injured workers who started a fight or a road rage altercation that led to their injuries, victims trying to get hurt, and those who were drunk or high at the time of their injury.
It is worth noting that the Las Vegas car accident lawyer team at Eglet Adams can assist workers who are eligible for these benefits in pursuing personal injury damages related to their crashes, too—provided that the ordinary criteria for actionable cases are met and that the injury victim in question is suing someone other than their employer. The workers’ compensation system limits the liability of employers in the event that their employees who are eligible for workers’ comp suffer work-related harm.