Injured at work by someone other than your employer and need a third party claim lawyer? Your claim may be worth far more than workers comp alone.
If you were hurt on the job, you probably know about workers compensation. What far fewer workers are told is this: when someone other than your employer helped cause your injury, you may also have a separate claim that recovers much more, including the pain and suffering that comp will never pay. Our third party claim lawyers in Florida find these overlooked claims and pursue them alongside your comp benefits, so you recover everything you are owed.
Why Workers Comp Is Usually Only Part Of The Picture.
In Florida, workers compensation is the exclusive remedy against your employer. In plain terms, you generally cannot sue your employer for a workplace injury, and in exchange comp pays your medical care and part of your lost wages regardless of fault.
Medical Care Through Comp
Workers compensation can pay authorized medical treatment connected to the workplace injury.
Only Part Of Lost Wages
Comp can provide wage benefits, but it does not necessarily replace the full income the injury costs you.
No Pain And Suffering
Workers compensation does not pay for the pain, suffering and emotional consequences of the injury.
A Separate Third Party Claim
When someone other than your employer contributed to the injury, a separate claim may recover what comp leaves out.
Comp does not cover the full extent of every loss. That is where a third party claim can change the picture.
What A Third Party Claim Can Add.
A third party claim can recover the damages workers compensation does not. Pursued together, comp and a third party claim can give you a far more complete recovery than comp on its own.
01
Full Lost Wages And Earning Power
Recovery can go beyond the portion of wages paid through workers compensation.
02
Pain And Suffering
A third party claim can address the physical pain and emotional impact of the injury.
03
Permanent Or Disabling Effects
Long-term limitations and permanent harm can be part of the full value of the separate claim.
04
Other Out-Of-Pocket Losses
Additional injury-related losses may be pursued when they are not covered by workers compensation.
We Know What Is Really At Stake For You.
A workplace injury is not just a medical matter, it is your income and your family’s security. Comp alone often falls short of what you actually need, and no one at the comp insurer is looking for the extra claim that could change that. We do. Our job is to take the full legal picture off your shoulders, protect your comp benefits, and pursue any additional claim so you are not left short while you recover.
Someone should be looking beyond the comp claim.
We protect the benefits already available to you while investigating whether another person, company or insurer also owes you compensation.
You Deserve A Lawyer Who Treats Your Case Like It Matters.
We are a boutique firm on purpose. Fewer clients, closer attention, and the same attorneys on your case from the first call to the last. You will not be handed to a case manager or left wondering what is happening, and it costs you nothing to find out where you stand, because you pay no fee unless we win. For our clients, that is the difference between feeling like a file number and feeling genuinely cared for.
Direct, focused representation from start to finish.
Your case stays close to the attorneys responsible for the workers compensation strategy, the third party investigation, communication and result.
Right Experts
Same attorneys
Clear updates
No fee unless we win
When A Third Party Claim Exists.
These claims come up more often than workers realize. The details differ from case to case, but the principle holds across many industries: if someone other than your employer played a part, there may be a second claim worth far more.
Motor Vehicle Accident
You drive for work and another motorist causes a crash. You may have both a comp claim and a claim against that driver.
Injury On Someone Else's Property
A hazard, unsafe condition or assault may create a claim against the property owner alongside workers compensation.
Defective Product Or Equipment
A malfunctioning tool, machine or other product may create a separate claim against the manufacturer.
Someone Outside Your Employer
If another person or company helped cause the injury, the full legal picture deserves a closer look.
How Can Third Party Claim Lawyers Help?
The legal team looks at the workplace injury and the outside party together so the comp claim is protected while every additional source of compensation is investigated.
Protect The Workers Comp Claim
Keep the medical and wage-benefit side moving while the separate liability investigation takes place.
Identify The Outside Party
Determine whether a driver, property owner, manufacturer or another company helped cause the injury.
Preserve The Evidence
Secure reports, photographs, records, witness information and product or property evidence before it disappears.
Document The Full Damages
Show the income loss, pain, permanent effects and other losses that workers compensation does not fully address.
Handle Multiple Insurers
Manage the comp carrier and the third party insurer without letting either one define the value of the overall recovery.
Pursue Both Claims Together
Coordinate the two claims and the rules governing how they interact so the overall recovery is handled properly.
Who Might Be The Third Party?
The answer depends on how the workplace injury happened. The key question is whether someone outside the employer played a part in causing the harm.
01
Another Motorist
A driver who causes a crash while you are traveling or driving for work.
02
Property Owner
An owner responsible for a dangerous condition where you were working or making a delivery.
03
Product Manufacturer
A company that made a defective tool, machine or other product involved in the injury.
04
Outside Contractor
A separate business whose acts or unsafe work created the hazard that injured you.
05
Security Or Property Operator
A party whose failure to address a dangerous property condition or security risk contributed to the injury.
06
More Than One Outside Party
Some workplace injuries involve multiple companies or insurers and more than one source of recovery.
Evidence That Can Reveal A Third Party Claim
A complete investigation may include:
A workers compensation file may not tell the whole story. The facts surrounding the accident can reveal an additional claim that no comp insurer has any reason to point out.
Scott Marshall
Three decades of experience fighting your corner.
Scott Marshall founded this firm in 1997 on a simple belief: to serve people well, you have to know them. Nearly three decades and hundreds of clients later, that has not changed. Scott is a trial lawyer who is not afraid to take a case the distance, AV Preeminent rated by his peers and a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group reserved for attorneys who have won multi-million dollar results.
He speaks English, Spanish, French and Swedish, so more Floridians can tell their story in their own words and be truly understood. When you work with this firm, that experience is the standard behind your case.
AV Preeminent Rated
Peer recognition for professional ability and ethical standards.
Years of Practice
Experience built through complex injury, wrongful death and workers’ compensation matters.
Languages spoken
English, Spanish, French and Swedish.
Questions Injured Workers
Ask Us.
The answers below are a starting point. A free case review lets the firm look at both your workers compensation claim and any separate third party claim that may exist.
What is a third party claim?
Is it worth filing a third party claim?
Will it affect my workers comp benefits?
What will it cost me to hire you?
Let Us Look Beyond The Workers’ Compensation Claim. For You.
A workplace injury may involve more than workers’ compensation alone. Tell us what happened and we will give you a straight, honest assessment of whether another person or company may also be responsible, free and with no pressure. You never pay a fee unless we win, and our focus is to protect your benefits while pursuing every source of compensation available to you.
Free
Direct
No fee
Tell us what happened.
Share a few details and the firm will contact you to discuss the next step. Your information is treated confidentially.
Free and confidential. Submitting this form does not create an attorney-client relationship.