If you’re injured on the job by a motor vehicle, you definitely have a workers’ compensation claim where you can get your medical treatment, your lost wages, and a settlement from the workers’ comp insurance company.
But you also have a third party case against the owner and driver of that vehicle. So you have, um, you can have two separate lawsuits, one being the workers’ comp one being the personal injury case.
And you can get two settlements because the laws are, are different and you get different type of benefits for each case.
