[NormsRevenge]

:-\

[EggsAckley]

Sweet. California continues to crumble.




Hey, Norm! Freezing over here!

[calcowgirl]

But... I thought we reformed Workers Comp and solved all the problems? /s

[farmfriend]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some workers' comp judges suggest the problem is not that they overuse the system, but that others use it too little.

Pure Socialism.....

[Elephino]

Being an insurance agent, I thought I had seen it all, from employees that file claims for carpel tunnel after less than a month on the job to employees that file claims for heart attacks due to work-related stress. Hopefully, after reading about these workers' compensation judges from the land of granola (fruits, nuts and flakes), I now have seen it all. Geesh, what has this world come to?

[spunkets]

"One judge, Ruby Theophile, was awarded $20,737 and lifetime medical care in 1998 after she filed a stress claim. A workers' comp judge decided that she was 30 percent disabled from psychiatric injuries and hypertension brought on by a death threat from a worker's comp applicant and long-term conflict with her supervisor. "

Amazing!

[kaycee21]

It is a sad day in America when people do not take death threats seriously. Need we be reminded of Chicago's Judge Joan Lefkow's who's husband and mother were murdered. What of Atlanta Judge Brian Nichols who was murdered in his courtroom.

Are these Judges not to take death threats seriously? What if you were in a similar situation, would you not have the same feelings of fear and anxiety?

Maybe the author of this article has never had the experience of having their life threatened or someone in their family who was murdered. Instead of criticizing the system, why not come up with some ideas of how to improve it. Would it have been possible to give another view of this situation. Just a thought.