You simply cannot make up the crazy workers’ comp claims:
There is a lady out there who is getting about $90/wk because she was traumatized walking thru a GNAT cloud at work! PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY!!!
I’ve seen it hundreds of times.
One particular lady interviewed for the packaging line, but I’d noticed that her papers showed she had a history of WC claims.
I told my boss not to hire her, but he said we needed people and couldn’t be picky.
First day on the job, I get a call to come out to line #36 and there she was, laying on the ground and moaning about her back.
If you look hard enough, you can see 90% of these people coming from a mile off.
Somebody sure got a reach around.
Where I work, an employee said that his back started hurting after he straightened up from bending over taking a measurement. The bill so far? With the back surgery, $71,000. He doesn’t have to prove he hurt his back at work, we have to prove he didn’t.
That really chaps my a$$.
A friend told me about a job-site situation in which a black guy claimed to have found a drawing of a man hanging from a noose inside a port-a-potty. He claimed racism, sued, and ended up collecting a bucket of cash.
I realize that this is not quite the same as a faked workplace injury, but the motivation is the same.
This sort of crap is why so many employers prefer to hire illegals.