There's a question that we receive at least once per month: Can I Sue Workers' Compensation for Pain and Suffering? First, we must remember that if you are collecting workers' compensation, you are not allowed to sue your employer. In the legal work, pain and suffering is a type of damage that pretty much includes everything that affected your quality of life. Pain and suffering is something we collect in a personal injury lawsuit. The workers' compensation system was trying to simplify the process of an injured workers being compensated by his or her employer. So this came with a trade off. Employees do not have to probe that the employer was at fault for their injury. But this usually limits the payments for medical bills and wage laws.

Let’s say you are a passagen in Uber or Lyft and some other car crashes onto you. Well, on that point, the other car’s insurance is the one that is going to be responsible for compensating you. Let’s say you are a passenger in Uber and Lyft and the driver of your Uber or Lyft is the one that causes an accident. Well, because you are a paying customer and the app is on, the Uber or Lyft insurance is the one responsible for compensating you. How about if a Uber or Lyft driver causes an accident on your own car. At that point, it’s going to depend whether the Uber or Lyft had a paying customer inside his vehicle. If they didn’t have any passengers, then the Uber or Lyft’s driver insurance will be the one responsible for compensating you. But if they did have a paying customer, then at that point Uber or Lyft insurance with the 1 million dollars policy would be the one for compensating you.

Uber and Lyft or ride-sharing companies has completely changed the way we travel. However, the Uber and Lyft drivers drive so many miles every day that increases the chances of either being involved in an accident or causing an accident. Georgia fortunately has passed laws that require at least one million dollar policy on the Lyft driver, but it's all going to depend whether the app is turned on. Also, it's going to depend whether there's a paying customer, or who ultimately caused the accident. All of these things are going to have an impact on your claim....Let’s say you are a passenger in Uber or Lyft and some other car crashes onto you. Well, on that point, the other car’s insurance is the one that is going to be responsible for compensating you. Let’s say you are a passenger in Uber and Lyft and the driver of your Uber or Lyft is the one that causes an accident. Well, because you are a paying customer and the app is on, the Uber or Lyft insurance is the one responsible for compensating you. How about if a Uber or Lyft driver causes an accident on your own car. At that point, it’s going to depend whether the Uber or Lyft had a paying customer inside his vehicle. If they didn’t have any passengers, then the Uber or Lyft’s driver insurance will be the one responsible for compensating you. But if they did have a paying customer, then at that point Uber or Lyft insurance with the 1 million dollars policy would be the one to compensate you.

Uber and Lyft or ride-sharing companies has completely changed the way we travel. However, the Uber and Lyft drivers drive so many miles every day that increases the chances of either being involved in an accident or causing an accident. Georgia fortunately has passed laws that require at least one million dollar policy on the Lyft driver, but it's all going to depend whether the app is turned on. Also, it's going to depend whether there's a paying customer, or who ultimately caused the accident. All of these things are going to have an impact on your claim.

That’s something that you and I would have to discuss because it all depends what your case merits. If your case merits more money, then at that point yes, we should sue the insurance company and get more compensation for you.

No, no you would not owe. We take personal injury cases in a contingency basis. That means we only get paid if we recover money for you. If by chance, we don’t recover any kind money for you, you don’t owe us anything.

If the other person that was involved in the accident is responsible for the accident, at that point, that other person’s insurance would be the one that pays for the car. We would be responsible to helping you get your car repaired, or if it’s a total loss, get you compensated for the value for your car.

Workers’ compensation law does allow the employer to discharge an injured employee, but it has been our experience that if you are represented by a lawyer, there is less likely that they would let you go.

You need to preserve the details of the trucking company, the driver, license plate. Then, when you go to the doctor, you need to make sure you keep all the bills, discharge forms. This way, we can make sure we can take over the case, look for the company and make sure we have the right people. Once you hire us, we will go out, we will look at the skid marks and take pictures of everything for you. So do not worry, we will take care of everything.

You need to make sure you take down all the information you can. If it’s a tractor-trailer, take pictures of the VIN numbers, all the numbers on the side of the vehicle, the license plate. If there’s skid marks on the road, take pictures of that. Take the information with the police officer. He’s going to give you a case number, take that down. After you go to the doctor, keep all the medical bills, all the discharge forms. Bring them on to us, we will look at it and we will make sure we protect all your rights.