Hi Friends in the Work Comp Industry! Greetings from#InjuredWorkersUnited: SILENT NO MORE
I am so grateful to have met you, and many other wonderful people met through the CAAA Applicant’s Attorney Association Conference, Winter 2014, in Rancho Mirage! With thanks to my FB Buddy and Honorable Judge who facilitated access to the Exhibit Hall at the event! I look forward to connecting with more of you, virtually!
I did speak to the organizing attorney of that event (must find his name again, disorganization is just one of the many side-effects of TBI) and I suggested that they open up the Exhibit halls to Injured Workers, and offer an injured worker discounted fee for their educational forums. If all WorkComp industry events would open doors to injured workers, virtual and non-virtual, great progress could be made in “cutting costs and saving lives.”
INJURED WORKERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM; WE ARE THE CASUALTIES OF THE PROBLEMS; the collateral damage to insane profits of your mega-billion dollar industries.
WorkComp is much like the Nuclear Industry: PROFITS BEFORE LIVES.
I met some amazing people! I had begun to believe that WorkComp was just a rat infested sewer of Americans acting like Sonderkommando of WorldWar II. I am happy to be able to report, that opinion is changing….with each new positive encounter, further facilitated via social media.
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I start SCRIPPS BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION PROGRAM next week and I guess I could have had a driver and sedan for transportation, but I’ll rough it. 🙂
Here’s a note I started for another friend, but I’m turning it into a blog this morning…. via Social Media, I am meeting more and more good providers of WorkComp information and services.
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This blog has a Resources page; we will amp it up! This is a new beginning (with several other drafts still in the works). The title of today’s blog is:
What can we tell Injured Workers and their loved ones about YOUR organization?
At the same time, my benefits (income) have been abruptly allegedly “EXHAUSTED” as of 7/26/14 (I was told the reinstatement would last through mid-September, minimally). Date of Injury 1/9/12. Exhaustion of benefits: 7/26/14.
That appears to be a shortfall of 24 weeks, or $23,088.
Combined with the unreimbursed since 2012 medical miles and expenses of $25,262.99 submitted to date; June-July are still to be submitted.
That’s $48,350.99 they got away with not paying, on top of causing me egregious harm by failure to provide medically necessary treatment for 2 years, 6 months, 24 days.
The Wyndham long term disability carrier staff of Reliance/Matrix are COMPETENT, nice, kind, compassionate, friendly, even if they deliver less than anticipated news. I don’t know exactly what the problem is with CNA and Grancell, but it ain’t me, no matter how many doctors they may pay to write expensive fake reports!
The problem is simple: In CA, an injured worker is entitled to 104 weeks of TTD, 52 weeks of State Disability. (156 weeks). I have been paid approximately 132 weeks. The math DOES NOT COMPUTE, HUH? “Where’s the money, Mr. Motamed? Looks like a shortfall of 24 weeks, AND, continued refusal to reimburse medical miles to even primary treating doctors, and self-procured medically necessary treatment in light of your company’s breach of fiduciary responsiblities to have provided immediate, reasonable and appropriate medical care for clearly diagnosed, by multiple doctors over the course.
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Many of your people do not know that the “brain” is a body part located in the “head” and they are further puzzled, baffled and bewildered to discover that “evaluations are not medical treatment.” The same problem exist at WCAB, particularly in the Information and Assistance realms, that “very small community, where everybody knows everybody, and has worked together for years.” Collusion? Awww, fix it and the District Attorney may continue to look the other way, huh?
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CNA secured a free loan from the State of California (in defiance of paying TTD in 2012, the State therefore paid $47,922 in 2012/2013), then, on demand for payment, CNA secured a huge discount and paid the State back $31,400, shorting ME approximately 24 weeks of benefits, while STILL WAITING FOR TREATMENT TO COMMENCE. The State tells me it happens all the time, and their hands are tied. (By whaaaat?!!!)
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That tells me that CNA and their law firm, Grancell et al, have declared an end to the cease fire in another act of ‘guerrila warefare’….. They both indicated they will do nothing to sort it out, and actually wrote me some pretty mean and nasty emails. Wyndham remains silent. TSK! Blockheads!
You can tell your people I intended to play nice and quiet and wait and see what happens during/after treatment. That’s not doing me any good, since the financial terrorism of February 2014 is starting alll over again.
Before I head to SCRIPPS, my political representatives will hear about this in further detail, as it appears to be a pattern and practice exercised by CNA, with all injured workers, in all states. Mr. Motamed, $10.7 million dollars a year CNA CEO will also be hearing from/of me, if he hasn’t already.
Tsk, mean crowd.
WyndhamWorldwide CEO, Stephen Holmes, 4th dude from the left. Dude, Dump CNA and Grancell, take it from an Injured Worker AND Shareholder. In one sytem-fail injury worker case, they have undone years of goodwill… How many other Wyndham employees have been so poorlytreated? Is it worth it? WE THINK NOT.
“Learn more about our commitment to protecting human rights.”
“Wyndham Worldwide is committed to protecting human rights and is proud to partner with leading organizations who share our same commitment. We strongly believe in collaboration throughout the international travel and tourism industry, in conjunction with law enforcement and other agencies at all levels, plays a critical role in increasing awareness and prevention around the world.”
Just wanted to bring you up to date….. I intend to take my blogs in a more solutions oriented direction…. while continuing to expose crimes against injured workers.
What can We tell InjuredWorkers and their loved ones about YOUR organization?
Some Injured Workers Resources: https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/about/
Oh Oh……dunno if you know of Becki Shafer? “Rebecca Shafer, Amaxx Risk Solutions, Inc.”
A blog was done that sort of plugged her book after ordering her book for myself, with hopes that if injured workers are armed with information, we will be less vulnerable to the hate crimes of the big insurance companies.
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(They hate us because a little medical care cuts into their corporate profits??! D’oh! They may need new bean counters!!!)
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Had Wyndham Worldwide done a fraction of what is recommended as a procedure, pattern and practice to adhere to in her book, it’s doubtful this mess would be as awful as it is, with ‘exposure’ to so many…
Here, if you get a chance, check it out… Some of your clients might need a copy.
TSK! Blockheads! 
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