Insurance Information No. (309)
In today's news, the driver of a truck carrying phosphates sustained moderate injuries after his vehicle overturned in the Al-Ittihad area on the Aqaba road. Civil Defense personnel transported him to the Quweira Military Medical Center.
In such a case, the Social Security Corporation is supposed to take action and immediately investigate the accident and verify the driver’s insurance coverage, and to quickly deal with the accident as a work injury and bear its legal responsibilities in treating the injured driver as an insured person with it, including his transportation and air rescue if the situation requires it through the air ambulance service that it has contracted to provide with the Air Ambulance Center, and for which it pays a quarter of a million dinars annually, not to mention other payments depending on the case, and transporting him to treatment centers..!
It is quite clear that the aforementioned accident and the driver's moderate injuries constitute a work injury within the concept of work injury as defined in the Social Security Law, which requires dealing with the accident without any delay, and approving the insurance rights of the injured person, first and foremost of which is providing full medical care in an appropriate treatment facility, paying the daily allowances due to the injured person, his transportation costs to and from treatment centers, and any other financial rights in the event that the accident results in a certain percentage of disability for the insured.
Work-related accidents and injuries require expedited procedures by the Social Security Corporation, and action is needed, not just waiting for the actions of the facility where the injured insured person works.