Can you get "lost wages" in two different legal matters?

[russharv63]

My wife got a Virginia workers compensation lawyer because her former employer would not file her workers compensation claim. My wife had to file it. Long story short her lawyer settled the case for $xx,xxx.xx. In the settlement part of the money was for my wife's "lost wages." Since my wife got her "lost wages' in the Virginia workers compensation settlement can she file a Virginia code 65.2-308 lawsuit aganist her former employer for the "lost wages"? She was fired for filing a Virginia workers compensation claim. Can she get her "lost wages" again since she already got them in the Virginia workers compensation settlement?

 

[Proserpina]

No.

She doesn't get to "double dip". It even says so on the statute...

 

[cbg]

Since she got them in the workers comp settlement, they're not lost any more.