Answer
Well, there’s a few things. First, the most basic thing is, you have to establish that you are the employee of the person or company, uh, in whose employ(ed) uh, employee were, uh, injured at. Uh, so first you have to be an employee. If you’re an independent contractor, um, you are not entitled to workers compensation benefits. You may be in—you may have an injury claim, uh, if you can show that someone else, uh, be it, uh, the general contractor or someone, uh, some third party was responsible, but you don’t have a worker’s comp case unless you can prove an employer-employee relationship, first and foremost. If you can do that, uh, then, and you can show, uh, medical evidence that you, of course, are, in fact, not only injured but injured to the point of being, uh, unable to do your full duties at work, um, you would be entitled, uh, to benefits under the act. Um, they don’t typically kick in or you don’t typically qualify, uh, for those benefits unless you’ve missed more than three days at work because of your injuries.