An injury or illness from your job can be scary in a lot of ways. Besides your health, you may worry about becoming unemployed and unable to pay medical bills, feed yourself and your family, pay rent and meet other needs. And that is why every state has a workers’ compensation program.<\/p>\n
But worker\u2019s comp does not pay much. Although it may help, you might still end up worse off than before the injury. If someone other than you or your employer seems partly responsible for your injury, a \u201cthird party\u201d claim might help get your future back on track.<\/p>\n
In a typical<\/a> workers\u2019 compensation situation, you provide some information about what caused your need for a doctor. Then you get medical help and maybe some paid time off to heal.<\/p>\n Typically, there is no need for you or your employer to blame each other. But sometimes a third party causes a serious work-related accident or illness. As examples, maybe:<\/p>\n In cases like these, you might be able to take legal action that would make a real difference in getting you past an injury.<\/p>\n Third-party claims are much more complicated than getting workers\u2019 comp, and they usually take serious fact-finding and planning to succeed<\/a>.\u00a0 But Oklahoma designed its regular workers’ compensation program to handle injuries that are pretty minor and have simple and clear causes. If you think somebody else, in addition to you or your employer, helped cause a serious injury or illness from your job, consider talking to a qualified workers’ compensation attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An injury or illness from your job can be scary in a lot of ways. Besides your health, you may worry about becoming unemployed and unable to pay medical bills, feed yourself and your family, pay rent and meet other needs. And that is why every state has a workers’ compensation program. But worker\u2019s comp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-compensation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
Third-party claims are rarely simple<\/h2>\n