Worker's Comp/Unemployment

if you were injured performing your job and now you're unable to work, i don't see why you wouldn't get worker's comp. i would talk to Human Resources first. if they seem contentious and unwilling to work with you, file a claim.

to my knowledge you can only collect unemployment if you are no longer employed (fired/let go). but i'm certainly no expert on the subject.

Well, the tricky thing about it is that I am moving and going from one club to another. I could probably be considered between jobs because I haven't formally filed paperwork for the new job. I am a soccer coach and was attaing a certification in Chicago where I ruptured my achilles. It was paid for by the previous club, but I was up there on my own, rather than for any specific club.

If you were injured during the course and scope of your employment, it is w/c. If your boss told you to leave work and deliver a package, you get in an auto accident, that is w/c.

You need to speak to a w/c atty before you file for anything.

If you do have a w/c injury, and then you file for unemployment, you have just ended your w/c claim. The basis for w/c is that you contend you are unable to work. If you file for unemployment, it is acknowledgement that you are willing and FIT for employment and negates any w/c claim you may have.

Also, if you are going to file a w/c claim, you must do so quickly. If you are injured during the course and scope of your employment, you are supposed to file an injury report and immediately inform your employer. Louisiana law favors this rule. Some cases are lost at trial because the injury report was not filed and the judge felt that the injured worker could not prove he was injured at work.

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I haven't had an official termination. I was actually to work camps for my current club in BR before moving to florida on the 11th and working for the new club. So I suppose I could officially claim w/c.

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I don't think you have a claim here. You were not onsite doing your specific job. I deal with this all the time. If all you are is a temporary staff (I'm not sure what your exact job is) and you were at a training and got hurt while trianing then it is POSSIBLY (big possibility) that the people you are training with are responsible for your care. Not your job. Unemployment is no way.

No, not on the clock.

My thoughts are that I will have to find some compensation through the Association that was holding the training course rather than an employer.

The Baton Rouge Soccer Association just had to pay for those new fields that I will be playing on in the Fall, so they don't have money for former employees who hurt themselves trying to do Kaka's newest trick.