{"id":1273,"date":"2015-06-29T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2017-07-17T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:43:41","slug":"no-double-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/no-double-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"No Double Recovery In Idaho Workers&#8217; Compensation Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">By Fred Lewis and George Casper<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/idaho-workers-compensation-lawyers.html\">Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation<\/a> cases where the injury is partially caused by a third party (resulting in two separate lawsuits), there is a big misconception that one can gain a cash settlement that is larger than the actual value of the case. Some argue that workers with legitimate third party claims can hit the lawsuit lottery if they are able to sue multiple entities at the same time. This is simply not the case. The type of recovery described above is called a &#8220;double recovery&#8221; in the legal world and expressly prohibited. In order to protect against a double recovery for an injury, the ruling court (in the case of a Worker\u2019s Compensation case, this would be the Idaho Industrial Commission) will make sure that there is no double recovery. This basically means that the employer\u2019s insurance company would lose their chance at reimbursement of their subrogated claim (what they have paid in medical bills and disability benefits) if the employers is found negligent. The only exception to this would be if the worker\u2019s compensation benefits and the benefits won in the third party case add up to be more than the actual value of the case.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">In order to better illustrate exactly what would constitute a double recovery, here is an example:<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/no-double-recovery\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading No Double Recovery In Idaho Workers&#8217; Compensation Cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred Lewis and George Casper In Idaho Worker\u2019s Compensation cases where the injury is partially caused by a third party (resulting in two separate lawsuits), there is a big misconception that one can gain a cash settlement that is larger than the actual value of the case. Some argue that workers with legitimate third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-comp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Double Recovery In Idaho Workers&#039; Compensation Cases | Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some argue that workers with legitimate third party claims can hit the lawsuit lottery if they are able to sue multiple entities at the same time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/no-double-recovery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Double Recovery In Idaho Workers&#039; 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