P.R. Laws tit. 11, § 17
In all cases of disease, injury, or death occurring to workmen or employees not subject to the provisions of this chapter, the liability of said employer is and shall be the same as if this chapter did not exist, regardless of any action which the prejudiced workman or employee may have in accordance with the provisions of § 5141 of Title 31, and the action shall be heard by the part of the Court of First Instance in which the accident occurred.
In such cases, nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed in the sense of depriving the injured workman or employee, or his beneficiaries in case of death, of their right to claim and obtain damages from the employer, in accordance with the injuries suffered by said workman or employee.
In these actions for damages, and as if this chapter were not applicable, the prejudiced workman or employee or his beneficiaries shall have the right, without filing a bond, to attach the property of the employer in the amount determined by the court to insure the satisfaction of such judgment as may be rendered, and such attachment shall include attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court.
History —Apr. 18, 1935, No. 45, p. 250, § 16, renumbered as § 14 on July 1, 1996, No. 63, § 3.