[Last edited on July 31, 2014 at 8:47 am]
FOLLOW THE MONEY! America? Just doesn’t seem right to send a sweet little ol’ Baby Boomer to the Welfare Lines and Homeless Kamps….and early death, does it? #Zombie Alerts!
America? Do you know, really know, how the #WorkComp Multi-Billion Dollar Insurance Scams work, to maim and kill us, while “they” laugh all the way to the bank? Here, check this out. If you have a similar story, let us know. We’re more than a little annoyed at the moment…. Follow the blogs too… more on that horizon coming right up…
#MicCheck. CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THESE GOALS?? Does it Make Sense to you Financial and Math Wizards?? Any other #InjuredWorkers experience this sort of madness, while waiting, waiting waiting for medically necessary treatments for over 2.5 years?
What’s YOUR story regarding #WorkComp and money and medical benefits? Anybody else experiencing full scale BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTIES by the Insurance Carriers? One goal is to shed light on these issues, in each of these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and helping the insurance companies mend their ways…their ways that are maiming and killing injured workers everywhere.
Here’s a MATH word question, for anybody with a brain, a job, or a work injury related to #WorkComp.
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In California, Work Comp works like this (allegedly):
TTD – 104 weeks (paid by carrier, while providing medical care)
EDD – 52 weeks (paid from employee’s fund, for long term disabilty)
Social Security – Long term disability – can take more than 2 years for approvals after pattern and practice of delays, denials, hearings, denials, delays…. similar to Work Comp practices of the State, just on a Federal Level.
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Optional: LTD – usually an employee purchased option, available after 6 months of injury, as a supplement, not ‘crazy money’….payable until age 65 or recovery, whichever is sooner, and apparently part of a pay-back/offset scheme in the event Social Security benefits are approved. Policies vary.
In my case, the long term disability policy contributed $100.00 a month while TTD benefits were being honored. When benefits by insurance carrier were illegally terminated, the LTD policy provided, briefly, $1,800 a month. When TTD resume, LTD wanted their money back. 
(Need an accountant just to deal with the cash flow, huh? D’oh!)
Social Security indicated that yes, they know I have a traumatic brain injury, but their finder of facts indicate that it is not bad enough to prevent me from selling timeshares. 😮 Does that mean they think …. nevermind…..it’s on appeal. One of their doctors suggested that I might be ‘crossing guard’ even though neuro-optometrists recommend vision therapy so it is safe for ME to cross the streets! Why on Earth they would want someone with vision impairments to help kids cross streets is BEYOND BELIEF, ISN’T IT?
So, here’s the puzzle. IF THE INSURANCE CARRIER DEFIES THE LAW, AND REFUSES TO PAY TTD TO INJURED WORKER, THE STATE SWITCHES PLACES AND PAYS THE INJURED WORKER, USUALLY AT A HIGHER RATE, FOR THE FIRST 52 WEEKS, AND PLACES A LIEN ON THE CASE FILE.
Then, as in my case, the insurance carrier picks up the TTD at a mis-calculated and substantially lower rate of pay, for another 52 weeks, then says, “OH MY. THERE YOU HAVE IT. 104 WEEKS. YOU’RE DONE!” When objected to by injured worker, the carrier response to the omitted 52 additional weeks was, “Oh, I do this all the time. You’ve been paid 104 weeks, and that’s all your entitled to.”
Then, resources recommend that the injured work file for General Relief as a burden to the State’s coffers. Some of you may have seen my February 2014 rants about the generosity of the Salvation Army to keep my lights and heat on in the cold winter, and they directed me to Food Banks and CRISIS CENTER COUNSELING. That was helpful.
Upon injured worker requests, EDD filed a demand for reimbursement from the Insurance Carrier for the $47,922.00 paid by the State in 2012/2013. On 4/24/14, the insurance carrier reimbursed the State of California $31,400.00 for the free loan provided due to the carrier’s willful and malicious refusal to pay TTD, an action supported by WCAB Information and Assistance Officer, and was not heard by a Judge since requested to be heard repeatedly, since December 2012.
The State, in further investigations, found that the carrier had underpaid the injured worker for approximately 416 days, and The State forwarded approximately $23,000 in May 2014 to cover that mess up, and resumed twice monthly payments of $1928 until last week. Upon further investigation by Injured Worker, even the State indicates that it is a common practice that they have to protect citizens and injured workers when insurance carriers fail to pay, and breach those fiduciary responsiblities.
The severe discount in the payback of the $47,922 loaned to the insurance carrier to only $31,400.00 back to the State…. is a huge profit to the insurance carrier…. and a huge loss of nearly 6 months of benefits the injured worker has paid into and is entitled to.
SO, DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE TO YOU EITHER?
That Mr. Thomas Motamed of CNA, their CEO, makes $10.7 million a year off the multi-billion dollar insurance rackets in America. Just doesn’t seem right to send a little ol’ Baby Boomer to the Welfare Lines and Homeless Kamps….
Any way you do the math, 104 weeks + 52 weeks = 156 weeks, which is 3 years.
I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for medical treatments for 2 years, 6 months, 22 days….. DO THE MATH, AND WONDER WITH ME, WHERE’S THE MONEY?
I have contacted staff people at #CNA, #GRANCEL, #WYNDHAM and #RELIANCE and I hope for good news and money shortly. KEEP THE FAITH.
WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. WE DO NOT…FORGET.
IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME OR SIMILAR PROBLEMS, SEND ME AN EMAIL AT WYNLINDA@GMAIL.COM OR COMMENT ON THE CURRENT BLOGS AT:
ASK ABOUT WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAINS
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/list-of-posts-ask-about-workers-comp-gravy-trains/…..
This one talks about ways to save Corporations Money and the Lives of Injured workers…. after reading this info on the ‘shell games’ played:
CORPORATE AMERICA AND UNIONS INTERESTED IN REDUCING YOUR WORKERS COMP COSTS BY 20-50% AND SAVING LIVES?
https://askaboutworkerscompgravytrains.com/2014/07/23/corporate-america-and-unions-interested-in-reducing-your-workers-comp-costs-by-20-to-50-and-saving-lives/
….there may be other thought provoking ways to reduce #WorkComp costs….like eliminating Defense Attorney’s and having clear investigations by the Departments of Insurance on violations of fiduciary responsibilities that involve State and Federal Funds.
TOGETHER, WE’LL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. MAYBE THEY ARE SIMPLE MISTAKES, HUH?
EASILY CORRECTED BY OVERNIGHT DELIVERY! WE’LL SEE. I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED. KEEP ME COVERED WITH LIGHT AND GOOD POSITIVE POWERFUL THOUGHTS…..THESE BOYZ DO NOT LIKELY SING IN THE CHOIR.
#INJURED WORKERS UNITED: SILENT NO MORE
WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. SO BE IT, AS IF LIVES DEPEND ON IT.
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