Quote of the day
"I was being followed all the time. At Home Depot, while I put things in the car, a guy was crouching down, watching me load the car. After I pulled away, he took a video camera off the roof of another car. It happens all the time. It's just what I have to put up with. It has made my life hell."
"John," an Atascadero School District employee who, according to workers' compensation claim medical reports, became mentally ill as a result of extensive surveillance by investigators
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Injured Workers Claim Harassment from Fraud Investigators
In recent years, workers’ compensation insurance administrators have mounted aggressive campaigns to cut costs by uncovering fraudulent claims. The downside to this action is that truly injured employees can be subjected to years of harassment. By Karen Velie, New Times SLO (San Luis Obispo)
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Latest California Broker Directory Released
California Broker Magazine has released the latest version of its California Broker Directory, which provides contacts for California life/health brokers and financial planners. Workers’ Comp Executive
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Petition Wipes Out Benefits to Inferno Victims’ Kin
The bankruptcy petition filed by the sibling owners of the Station nightclub, which burned to the ground in early 2003 killing 100 people, relieves them of having to fork over the more than $200,000 in workers’ compensation benefits that state labor officials last year ordered them to pay to the families of the four nightclub employees killed in the fire. By Lynn Arditi, Providence Journal
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Texas Workers’ Comp Patients Decry ‘White Coat Club’
Seventeen women in Texas have complained that an Austin doctor sexually abused them during visits, but that they kept going back to because they were afraid he’d write evaluations that would prevent them from getting the workers’ comp coverage they needed. By Craig Malisow, Houston Press
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NSW Education Dept. Appeals Payout to Teacher Sacked over Affair
In New South Wales, Australia, a teacher who lost his job over an affair with a 15 year old student but had his compensation reinstated by the Workers’ Compensation Commission is being dragged back to court. The state Department of Education is making a last ditch effort to appeal the payout for his alleged “psychological injury” that resulted from its investigation. By Bruce McDougall, Daily Telegraph (Sydney) [With Photo] Go to the Full Story…
Possible Taft Reprimand in Hands of Ohio High Court
The Ohio Supreme Court will decide if Gov. Bob Taft should be publicly reprimanded for his conviction last year on misdemeanor ethics violations including failing to report 45 golf outings provided to him. One outing was with Tom Noe, the man at the center of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s investment scandal. By James Drew and Steve Eder, Toledo Blade [With Photo] Go to the Full Story…
New York Manufacturers Call Workers’ Comp One of Top Two Woes
Although manufacturing conditions in New York improved in August at the slowest pace in more than a year according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey, manufacturers still rank workers’ compensation costs as one of the top two industry problems. By Andrea Deckert, Rochester Business Journal
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