The Act provides the only means for making a claim against your employer. However, if someone “other than” your employer negligently caused, contributed to or worsened your work-related condition of ill being, you may make an additional, separate type of claim against the “others”. A few examples of “others” would be another contractor on the job, the driver of a vehicle that collided with you, the owner of a building, or a doctor or hospital who treated your injuries.

The existence of this right is one more reason that an attorney is a valuable asset in any Workers’ Compensation claim. You could recover not just Workers’ Compensation percent losses, but also damages for lost income, lost pension payments, pain, suffering, inconvenience and so forth.

If you want more information about this process against “others”, please click here. It explains the workings of a non-Workers’ Compensation injury claim.