What's wrong with this lawyer?!

June was approaching, and the temperature in Xiping City was already rising quite high.

Old Tang removed his jacket and held it in his hand, while passing pedestrians kept giving him curious looks.

There was no helping it—the pattern on his T-shirt was simply too eye-catching.

But Old Tang didn't mind. He walked straight into the Anchang District Court, passed through security, entered the case-filing hall, and showed not a shred of embarrassment.

Inside the case-filing hall, the staff member Ji Xueli was methodically processing cases. She was the very same staff member who had received Old Tang years ago.

If after all these years, she was still working here.

It's the same in most places—if you work well, can you rise quickly?

No, no, if you work well… you'll just have to work even more. Promotions don't really have much to do with how well you work.

After neatly closing the file on the previous case, Ji Xueli pressed the call button. Before long, a familiar-looking young man appeared at the window.

Ji Xueli looked him over, glanced at the pattern on his shirt, and suddenly, dormant memories came flooding back.

"Hey, wait a minute, you're... you're Tang Fangjing?"

Old Tang grinned, showing a mouthful of white teeth. "Hello, you still remember me, huh? I remember your name is... Ji Xueli, right? What a coincidence; it's still you."

Tang, with his uncanny knack, could basically remember everyone he'd met, tossing out their names effortlessly.

Ji Xueli, on her end, genuinely looked shocked. After years of not seeing this Lawyer Tang, he could still call out her name instantly!

She couldn't help but laugh. "Lawyer Tang, of course I remember you. How could I not? After all, I've been at this window for years, and you only ever filed that one unique complaint."

A complaint against her own court—probably the only one she'd ever see in her lifetime.

It was still amusing to think about.

Though Old Tang had sued the Anchang District Court, honestly, aside from the judge who appeared in court to defend, and the court leadership at the time, the other staff didn't think much of it.

On the contrary, many people admired Old Tang!

Or rather, in the legal field—especially among those in practice—there were tons of people deeply impressed by Tang.

Conversely, many in legal academia didn't think highly of Tang. They found his so-called approach of "if you can't solve the problem, solve the person who raised it" to be downright absurd.

The two laughed together, and before long, Ji Xueli said, "Lawyer Tang, so who are you suing this time? Or… who are you planning to send to jail?"

Old Tang immediately replied, "Defamation! That's defamation! How could I send someone to jail for no reason? The case this time is all about money."

Who even started the rumor? Sure, he did send a few people to jail on behalf of certain cases, but those were tangential.

Without doing so, those cases would've been completely stuck. The usual legal channels couldn't resolve them, so he had no choice but to proceed that way...

Sigh, does everyone think that way now?

As Tang mulled it over, he pulled out the complaint and other materials to hand them over.

"Take a look, see if anything's missing. The situation of the plaintiff here is really miserable. While they've already received the work injury compensation, I believe we can do something on the infringement side too."

From inside the window, Ji Xueli looked slightly surprised and said, "Lawyer Tang, are you planning to pursue double compensation for the work injury?"

As she spoke, Ji Xueli glanced at the complaint and added, "But this kind of case won't be easy to handle..."

Old Tang nodded and chuckled, "I know it won't be easy. If it were easy, I wouldn't bother with it."

Although we often say that in work injury cases involving infringement, due to the dual nature of "work injury compensation" and "third-party infringement," the plaintiff can claim both.

You can pursue work injury compensation and personal injury damages simultaneously.

But, in our country's legal system—especially in insurance-related laws—there's an important principle: "the principle of non-benefit."

If you're injured, the other party compensates you for medical expenses and other damages, including emotional distress, which is fair.

However, anyone who's fought a lawsuit knows that you can't just randomly write down compensation amounts—each claim must be supported by evidence!

You can't derive additional benefits from the act of being injured; that's the essence of the non-benefit principle.

This is particularly evident in the insurance industry's "indemnity principle," which is one of its most prominent expressions.

Looking at the reality of work injury double compensation cases, the situation isn't optimistic. In certain regions, local government regulations don't support double compensation for work injuries, adhering to the indemnity principle.

This means that in areas where local regulations don't support double compensation for work injuries, if you want to claim both, you have to resort to administrative litigation!

On the contrary, the vast majority of courts do support double compensation for work injuries, and such administrative lawsuits often result in favorable rulings.

For those confused, let me explain a bit.

Who determines work injury claims? It's the local human resources and social security bureau—a department of the local government, so naturally, it follows local government regulations.

And what do court judgments rely on? They rely on the "Supreme Court's response regarding whether workers injured by third parties or their relatives can receive workers' compensation in addition to civil damages."