Professor Leonard T. Jernigan Jr. has compiled a list of 2013's Top 10 Workers' Compensation Fraud Cases Employer Fraud Cases (9):$44,962,492.00 Employee Fraud Cases (1): $1,500,000.00 Total: $46,462,492.00 Every year we hear about fraud in Workers’ Compensation cases and the public believes the fraud is employee driven. However, in 2009 I began [...]
Today's post was shared by The Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group and comes from theadvocate.comLAFAYETTE — Lafayette city-parish government has paid $225,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured when she broad-sided a police cruiser that was going through a red light while responding to another traffic accident.City-parish government released [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Workers often fear retaliation if they report a safety violation or work injury related to a violation. Concerns about being fired or other forms of retaliation by employers permeate the process of worker’s comp claims filing. Studies have indicated that retaliatory fear prompts [...]
Dental x-rays Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.latimes.com When my son and daughter were youngsters, once a year I'd have a disagreement with their pediatric dentist. He wanted to do routine annual X-rays, and I would protest because neither child ever had any cavities. His response: Dental X-rays [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.theatlantic.comShutterstock/Vladyslav StarozhylovIt was the day after Christmas, 1994, and the Garber family had gathered around its table for a post-holiday dinner. The atmosphere: still festive. The turkey: still juicy. The tree: still in full regalia. All was still merry and bright, in other words, as we sat [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Came across this post today: "How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens." News like this has become so commonplace that you almost accept it with a shrug. Yeah, big box stores and fast food chains are paying their workers' cruddy wages, forcing [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Jon Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore.I was happy to have the chance to represent Theron Chapman in his whistleblower claim against his former employer, Midwest Demolition. While the Lincoln Journal Star headline of “Man chased from job by manager with stun gun awarded back pay” is catchy, the [...]
Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.maciverinstitute.com Median Workers Comp Payments Nearly 5 Times the Medicare Rates for Same Procedures The Workers Compensation Advisory Council (WCAC) is worried that medical costs are out of control and has spent the past few months formalizing a plan to keep them in [...]
Today's post was shared by Take Justice Back and comes from www.change.org We applaud you and your colleagues for taking the next steps towards revising regulations to allow generic drug manufactures to update their warning labels. We want to thank you for your efforts to restore the rights of Americans injured by generic drugs.We believe [...]
Hulk Hogan Today's post was shared by Gelman on Workplace Injuries and comes from www.sportsworldnews.com While professional teams in California have sheltered themslves from workers' compenstion claims, the injuries have not gone away. Workers' compensation has long been a vehicle to insulate employers and their insurance carriers from the payment of benefits. With the errosion [...]