I agree with Bruce. No unbiased statistical scientific study ever performed used those words. Using words like “meager”, etc brings into question the validity of the study. “Scientific” is used very loosely here.
Issuing statements such as “will drastically reduce the already-meager compensation injured workers receive” and “the horrendous impact the governor’s proposed cuts would have on injured workers was made clear” might lead one to think that this professor has some sort of bias when he did his study. Just wondering.
Your article only mentions injured workers who would be harmed by the new PD rating schedule. What about the employers, especially public employers, who have, for years, subsidized a broken system which rewards claimants with exclusively subjective complaints? They, their doctors, and their attorneys have collected dollars that could have helped the truly injured workers mentioned in your article. Did the “study” include an equal representation of cases harmful to CA taxpayers and employers? If so, they were conspicuously absent from your article. If not, then the so-called study lacks credibility.
SB899 is an effort to bring some parity into a failed system.
Obviously you have never been hurt on the job. The fraud by employee’s has been well documented at or below 1%, transversly the fraud committed by insurance companies representing business has sky rocketed. Delay or outright denial of treatment (even when found madically neccesary) resulting in death or more devestating and disabling conditions isn’t rare. Complete refusal to abide by the courts judgement is rampant resulting in homelessness, loss of property and the list goes on.The penalties are miniscule and they use it to effectively “starve out” the injuried worker…a term coined by insurance companies.
Attorneys barely make anything on a case and they administer to it for life. Often attorneys working on case for 3, 5, 10 or more years before they see a penny.
S.B, 899 was passed in the wee hours with no public awarensess or input in the interest of injuries workers and now they are breaking the law as the law requires a review of the bills effectiveness…want to guess why they don’t want to do that? Because it is causing great harm to injured workers and letting corrupt insurance companies enjoy 40 cents on the dollar pure proffit after all payouts and responsibilities, payroll etc…
That is historic profit. Its all well documented.
Your comment is ignorant, un-informed and an insult to the injured workers.
Many so called “Disabled workers” can find other work , attorney’s are not paid unless there is a settlement, immigrants often come to work with hangover after a night of drinking.
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I agree with Bruce. No unbiased statistical scientific study ever performed used those words. Using words like “meager”, etc brings into question the validity of the study. “Scientific” is used very loosely here.
Issuing statements such as “will drastically reduce the already-meager compensation injured workers receive” and “the horrendous impact the governor’s proposed cuts would have on injured workers was made clear” might lead one to think that this professor has some sort of bias when he did his study. Just wondering.
Your article only mentions injured workers who would be harmed by the new PD rating schedule. What about the employers, especially public employers, who have, for years, subsidized a broken system which rewards claimants with exclusively subjective complaints? They, their doctors, and their attorneys have collected dollars that could have helped the truly injured workers mentioned in your article. Did the “study” include an equal representation of cases harmful to CA taxpayers and employers? If so, they were conspicuously absent from your article. If not, then the so-called study lacks credibility.
SB899 is an effort to bring some parity into a failed system.
Obviously you have never been hurt on the job. The fraud by employee’s has been well documented at or below 1%, transversly the fraud committed by insurance companies representing business has sky rocketed. Delay or outright denial of treatment (even when found madically neccesary) resulting in death or more devestating and disabling conditions isn’t rare. Complete refusal to abide by the courts judgement is rampant resulting in homelessness, loss of property and the list goes on.The penalties are miniscule and they use it to effectively “starve out” the injuried worker…a term coined by insurance companies.
Attorneys barely make anything on a case and they administer to it for life. Often attorneys working on case for 3, 5, 10 or more years before they see a penny.
S.B, 899 was passed in the wee hours with no public awarensess or input in the interest of injuries workers and now they are breaking the law as the law requires a review of the bills effectiveness…want to guess why they don’t want to do that? Because it is causing great harm to injured workers and letting corrupt insurance companies enjoy 40 cents on the dollar pure proffit after all payouts and responsibilities, payroll etc…
That is historic profit. Its all well documented.
Your comment is ignorant, un-informed and an insult to the injured workers.
Many so called “Disabled workers” can find other work , attorney’s are not paid unless there is a settlement, immigrants often come to work with hangover after a night of drinking.