Calif. Supreme Court Rejects Third Lawsuit Against Workers’ Comp Issues

July 14, 2005

  • August 2, 2005 at 12:51 pm
    compman says:
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    Wow Sandra, I sure hope you don’t hurt yourself falling off your soapbox. Based on your response to me, obviously, you don’t know what lobotomy means. It is neither dirty or offensive. I will try and use smaller words. Also, in your first sentence, I am sure you meant to use the word visceral instead of visual, but then again, maybe not. I am sorry you think I am a disgusting pair of pig you know what just because I don’t agree with your statements. You rant and rave on about how my statements are so bad, but I re-read my statements, and found none to be as inflammotory as yours. As far as match and education goes, I fail to see how you could have been out of work for 6 months and it would have cost your employer $3,000. Do you work for free? Also, you say I HIDE behind my moniker, well, you keep referring to “we” in your letter, but we don’t know who “we” is. I bet my tax dollars are being spent. By the way, I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota with a BS in Accounting and a Masters in Business Administration and have several family members who are attorneys. Believe me, they are not hurting, and they don’t work for free either. Face it, the comp system was broken and this is the first attempt to get it fixed. Everybody is crying about injured workers not getting treatment and such, but I think it is too early to tell as not that many cases have been settled yet. There are too many people trying to get a piece of the pie. I believe the injured worker should get the most, and if it wasn’t for all the others trying to grab a piece, this would happen.

  • August 3, 2005 at 1:13 am
    compman says:
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    Sandra, time to take your meds. You are way off the deep end. Please take a moment to go back and actually READ my comments. It may enlighten you. Good luck in your endevours to help the injured workers, and yes, I truly mean it.

  • August 3, 2005 at 6:13 am
    Sandra Wood says:
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    Compman –
    I did read all your insulting e-mails a second time. Take what meds? The insults just don’t keep comming from you who ever you are. And you insult the trial laywers who represent injured workers. I have not read anything about insurance companies or defense attorneys. You must own your own insurance company.

  • August 3, 2005 at 6:46 am
    MIke Hunt says:
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    I have been watching Sandra and Compman go back and forth, and I have to say, Sandra, you are the pot calling the kettle black. You were the first to hurl insults at Compman by calling him a name having to do with pig testicles. I have read both of your responses and don’t see where Compman has insulted injured workers or attorneys. He even stated he felt injured workers were getting the shaft as well. You have spewed much of your hatred at him or her, (I assume him since he is compMAN, but these days you can’t tell). He has answered back with some sarcastic remarks aimed at you, but you still seem to think since he won’t reveal his name, that he is an inanimate object unable to have caring feelings. I would say Sandra that you are very cold in your confrontational stance and Compman could show more restraint in questioning your intelligence. With that in mind, both of you should go back to the drawing board and put up some facts to back up your arguments.

  • August 5, 2005 at 11:39 am
    Sandra Wood says:
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    Dear Mike –

    You must not have read my e-mails. I do not call the kettle black. In my e-mails I state nothing but facts about myself and the workers comp situation. Compman insults Peggy Sugarman, VIAW and injured workers. From what is going on in the workcomp arena these days, injured workers are being treated like they are all frauds which they are not. They are continually being insulted and being treat in an inhumaine fashion in general. I personally visit several of them on a monthly basis.

    CAAA attorneys represent the injured workers, but becasue of the cuts in the new laws to the injured workers, attorneys who represent the injured workers can not make a living much longer in the workcomp courts. State Senate Bill 899 has taken the injured workers doctor away and forced them to go to a company doctor now Fact. A utilization review board is in place now costing thousands of uneccesary dollars to employers. These doctors never see the patient and as a result there is only denial of medical care and almost no approvals of medical care at all, Fact.

    One young man who has a severly injured back had his pain meds denied the begining of July, fact. As a result when he had a back spasm he fell and broke his foot. Fact. This was a result of SB899, Fact. Tomorrow I am visiting a woman who’s husband committed suicide because of the bad workman’s compensation system, Fact.

    Compman said I had a lobotomy insult, told me to take my meds. insult, insulted VIAW which he knows nothing about our organization and insulted the attorneys who represent injured workers. Even vator who answered said to “Whack the attorneys on the head.” Those are the insults. Fact.

    Compman’s statements targeted to insult Mrs. Sugarman for her factual answer and called her and VIAW “a front for CAAA attorneys” are insults. We operate on donations and membership dues.

    At least you do not hide behind a ficticious name Mr. Hunt. I give you credit for being honest in that respect.

    The workman’s compensation system should actually be done away with in my opinion and an entirely new system be created from the ground up which is fair to both the employer and the employee. Workcomp insurance also needs to be regulated to stop skyrocketing rates and insurance brokers from pocketing profits that were meant to save the employer and businesses. Rates are not comming down as they were supposed to with the passage of SB899.Fact. AIG insurance has defrauded California of one billion dollars, Fact – another Enron situation.

    Regards,

    Sandra Wood

  • August 8, 2005 at 7:59 am
    Sandra Wood says:
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    So Sam Gold or whoever you are, I never mentioned Mrs. Tracey. It seems to me you do not work because at 2:14 in the afternoon you have nothing better to do than go online and write comments under a false front fueling your own anger.

    I did not visit Mrs. Tracy, Sam. I do not know Mrs. Tracey. It is someone you do not even know about.

    Sandra Wood

  • August 8, 2005 at 11:40 am
    compman says:
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    Wow Sandra:

    You recited the CAAA’s talking points almost verbatim. You would think with the millions of injured workers that are victims of the new WC system that you could find more than those three examples that have been thrown out to the public over the last 2 years. Then again, maybe there aren’t that many injured workers having major problems attributable to the new laws.

    I am sure you recruited Mike to your side with your speech

  • August 8, 2005 at 2:38 am
    Sandra Wood says:
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    Compman – In your latest argument you state that I state three examples from the CAAA word for word with what they say.

    Actually I am quoting from the law SB899 which I know you have not read. I am also speaking from experience you forget I was an injured worker who had to use the utilization review board to get my medical treatment for my back. That review board is a waste of time. The board takes 14 to review a treating physicians request. In the meantime the patient suffers with no medical care. Bad system. And it is written in the law the utilization review board never sees the patient. The patient is not allowed to know what doctor reviewed their file.

    The CAAA do not know about the injured people that I spoke to. These are injured workers I speak to directly by myself. I have not even scratched the surface yet of all the horror stories out there. Again Compman your view points only serve to vent your own personal anger at something. You could be angry at your attorney.

    You mention CAAA, yet you never say anything about defense attorneys and you never give me a direct answer to facts that I post about this subject. If you are so smart as you told me you were you sure do not verify facts before you post a prejudiced comment.

  • August 8, 2005 at 3:14 am
    compman says:
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    Sandra:

    Please give my condolences to Mrs. Tracey.

  • August 9, 2005 at 10:22 am
    Sandra Wood says:
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    So Compman your an Insurance Broker.

    Then my first guess was right. Since the 1990’s there have been over 30 suicides due to individuals not getting medical treatment over long periods of their injuries. Obviously you don’t follow the news. One of our board members husband committed suicide, the lady I saw this last Sunday husband committed suicide who was a peace officer and was denied medical care for 9 years by State Fund Insurance. Jamie Tracey’s husband committed suicide, so there are three people who committed suicide in the last year. If you look at Larry Nigin’s documentary at the end the movie in the credits it is dedicated to several people who committed suicide over the past years and their names are listed.

    I don’t trust insurance brokers because I had an auto insurance agent in roseville defraud me to the tune of $3,000.00’s and I have to go to court to get my money back. Having a brother as a prosecutor comes in handy.

    Your insults just don’t stop. You first call Garamendi – Quakamendi, of course maybe you are right considering he has not audited AIG yet which has defrauded California of 1 billion dollars.

    I state facts and not interpetation of issue’s becasue I site specific examples and you have no specific examples. Statistics can also be fraudulent. Look at all the doctors filing false medical reports for insurance brokers so an injured worker is denied proper medical care. My Chiroprator has to go to court on just such an issue.

    My jewler in San Rafael said his rates are going up, not down, specific example and I know I can find lots of more employers with specific examples if you wish.

    Yes VIAW was given seed money to form by CAAA. That I will not deny. But in time VIAW is standing on it’s own two feet. I think you just really hate Mrs. Sugarman. The anger comes from your end becasue of your continual need to insult people in all your comments and rebutle answers. You would benefit from anger management classes and well as taking a class on respect for human rights and injured workers.

    VIAW has 2,500.00 members. Some people have paid their dues for $25.00’s and then we have lots of doctors who have donated $1,000.00’s as well as some of our members have given $1,000.00’s We also were given $50,000.00’s from labor unions. These are financial statistical facts, not issues. We are also planning fund raisers for next year.

    To work with patients(because that is what an injured worker is) is very rewarding. It’s one of the few jobs where you are not stealing someone else’s business or clients such as your occupation. You are helping a person out of pain or someone in need. Several of my members have been so harrassed by private P.I.’s whcih have been hired by people such as yourself to invade their privacy that they have anxiety attacks. At my meeting and functions they feel safe because I do treat them in an inhumaine manner and they know I only want to help them in any way I can.

    As a WC broker surely you must know that the CEO of State Fund resigned only the day after it was picketted last February.

    And as far as I am concerned all insurance is a waste of money becasue you just give it out and never see a penny of it back.

    As far as anger agin, no the anger is not with me otherwise I could not be doing the things I am doing now for injured workers. You really need to watch what you decide to put out on the internet and you need to start taking a look at all the injured workers who are being continually denied medical care.

    Sandra Wood



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