There are two bills in the legislature (HB 709 and SB 544) that will reduce workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers’, abolish their rights to physician-patient privacy and make it easier for insurance companies to cut off benefits. Although there is a 146 young women died because the fire doors were locked possibility that representatives [...]
On September 14, 1901 at 2:15 a.m.President William McKinley took his last breath and became the second President since Lincoln to die from an assassin’s bullet. To the horror of many New York politicians, Theodore Roosevelt, the former activist governor of New York who had been shuffled into the vice-presidency to keep him from further meddling in [...]
The book, Confessions of a Union Buster, gives us insight into the active national agenda of Corporate American to redesign the nation’s workers’ compensation system through a conspiracy employing the use of smoke and mirrors. Martin Jay Levitt, who performed despicable acts as an employer-sponsored union buster for over 20 years, has written a book [...]
In the previous post on this topic, I outlined the problem of employer fraud (as opposed to employee fraud) in the workers’ compensation system. In this post, I will examine some real life examples of employer fraud and discuss what is being done to combat this problem. First, let’s consider a few real-time examples of [...]
Perception is reality until proven otherwise, and when it comes to fraud in the workers’’ compensation system there is the perception that employee fraud is widespread and costs are up because of employee fraud. In 2005 there was $446,826.00 in employee fraud, but $12 million dollars in fraud by employers. Could that perception be wrong? For example, [...]