You can usually tell the quality of work your general contractor will give you by how he treats his employees. If he doesn’t take even the minimum amount of time to protect them, how much effort will he put into your house? Austin Injury board has a great how-to process on how to buy good worker’s comp insurance.
A worker’s comp policy can generally be purchased in one of two-and-a-half ways. First, the employer that has hired the employee can purchase the worker’s comp policy. In our case, if L&O purchased the insurance then the worker couldn’t sue L&O. However, that policy would not protect others. Therefore, if the person that was driving the forklift was employed by the general contractor, another subcontractor or even the property owner, then the employee would still be able to sue any of those entities.
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