Will Worker’s Compensation Take Care of You?

It is fair to say that most of us feel fairly protected while at work. We simply know, because of workers compensation, that if we are injured while on the job that we will be compensated fairly and that we will not have to take care of our medical bills. Unfortunately, that is not true for everyone, including a person we'll refer to as JS.

JS was hit by a drunk driver in 2003 while driving during a routine daily task to mail letters for her employer. The driver went to prison for two years, but JS feels like she’s still in prison.

At first her company’s third-party administrator paid for the bills, but after about five months the payments started being delayed and by the end of the first year, her treatments were being denied. She said she hasn’t received an acceptable reason and although she returned to work after about five months, the issues from the accident seem to keep mounting. At first she sustained a broken pelvis and fractured jaw from the accident, but now she has had to stop attending college and goes to two or three medical appointments a month for things such as chest pain, and gallstones (due to extreme amounts of weight loss from the fractured jaw).

Now, she is battling the California workers compensation system, along with many others that, for one reason or another, are not getting the workers compensation they deserve in California.

A Workers Compensation Story









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