Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“Wait. Wait. They can’t get unemployment if they’re hurt?”
Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“That’s correct. Because if…in order to qualify for unemployment…”
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“You have to be fired?”
Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“No. That’s not necessarily true. But in order to qualify for unemployment you have to be employable. You have to be going and applying for jobs. But if you’re hurt, you can’t go apply for jobs because you’re hurt.”
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“It’s a Catch-22!”
Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“It could be a Catch-22, but when you’re involved in a scenario like that…that may drive pushing the claim faster. It may drive going into litigation sooner. It won’t necessarily relieve the financial pressure, right then and there. But you know that you are now pulling those time frames back, so that you can hopefully relieve them sooner.”