Hurt at a Patients Home

An Avvo.com Q&A user asked:

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Besides Workers Compensation and Medical Care If I hurt myself in a Patients Home can the Home Insurance be used to compensate?
I work Home Health for a Home Health Company, full time in the patients home, I hurt my back lifting a combative patient would my lawyer also consider attacking the Home Owners Home Insurance? What possible benefits would there be? Pro and Con.
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Our response

If you can prove that their was some fault on the part of the homeowner, then you would have a third party case against the homeowner. You would then have two cases: 1. a worker’s compensation case against your employer, and 2. a third party negligence case against the homeowner. Negligence in the home can be as simple as slipping and falling due to a hazard that was not obvious.
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