Traveling employees: “Injured on the job” can happen anywhere
“Injured on the job” does not mean, “injured at your workplace.” Rather, it refers to any injury suffered while working. This is a very important distinction for a traveling employee whose workplace might be a moving car, truck or airplane (or the various destinations to which those vehicles travel). This bears repeating: If you working when you are injured — no matter where you are — you can file a workers’ compensation claim. Often, traveling employees have more than one legal claim after an injury. It can sometimes be easy to forget that, in addition to a personal injury or…
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