Claiming compensation as a contractor injured during work

You can be eligible to claim compensation as a contractor injured during the course of your work and your employment, and we may be able to represent you for a case.

Given that certain responsibilities in respect of health and safety could actually be on you as a contractor rather than the company you are working for, we will need to carefully risk assess what has happened to determine if we can help you. You can speak to our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

Can you claim compensation as a contractor at work?

You can be eligible to claim compensation as a contractor who has been injured through the course of your work and your employment. The law can be different in respect of whether you are an employee of an organisation or where you are independently contracted out. The question will often come down to the nature in which health and safety regulations may have been breached.

There are lots of workplace health and safety regulations to protect employees, and they are quite strict to try to limit someone being injured. As an independent contractor, you may have the responsibility to look after your own health and safety in respect of things that an employer would normally do for an employee. For example, it may be that it is your duty to make sure that you have the right personal protective equipment in place. When it comes to training and risk assessments, that can also be something that you may have control over. As such, there can be scenarios where it can be difficult to pursue compensation as a contractor where the health and safety responsibilities are on you as opposed to the company employing your services independently.

Of course, there are many ways in which a contractor could be injured where the fault is directly with the company that they are contracted with. Any injury that is caused by the negligence of somebody else working for that company, or perhaps due to an unsafe environment that you had no control over, could allow you to claim compensation as a contractor. We will need to carefully risk assess what has happened and then we can make a determination as to whether your claim is one that we can take forward for you.

In a different scenario, if you are working as a contractor for an employer and being outsourced somewhere else, your own employer has a responsibility for your health and safety as well. As such, it may be the case that you pursue your own employer as opposed to the company you are contracted out too.

The best thing to do is speak to our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

The need for specialist injury lawyers on your side

Given that there can sometimes be difficulties in respect of being able to claim compensation if you were a contractor as opposed to an employee, it is essential that you instruct specialist injury lawyers for a case. As referenced above, we will need to carefully risk assess what has happened to determine if we can help you on a No Win, No Fee basis.

It can be common for the insurance companies to defend cases of this nature where they will try to place the health and safety responsibility on you. We can work with the evidence and information that we can to try to establish who has responsibility and has been negligent in the duty of care for you.