Every citizen in this country enjoys the right to choose their own medical provider Earl EXCEPT the injured worker. To choose their own doctor to look after the injuries INCURRED AT WORK, means either a) paying the bills themselves which they cannot afford to do and often don’t have the medical insurance via their jobs anymore because their greedy employers FIRE them, or find a flimsy excuse to fire them, FOR BEING INJURED or b) means fighting for months in a back and forth with a resistant ‘defense’ to get their ONE-TIME option of choosing their own doctor, which does not happen for months, sometimes YEARS before they can. And that’s IF they can, because it’s no guarantee it will be approved.

See Earl, you and people like you really have NO idea just how caustic, cruel, and hostile the wc ‘system’ is to injured workers. And PI’s who work for the soulless insurers, mainly the nasty little adjustors assigned to the claim ( who, btw, have the sole job role of AVOIDING any kind of paying out – oh, you didn’t think about that, huh? ), are just part of a game of psychological warfare on the injured workers. PI’s are paid, primarily, as just another tool ( emphasis on TOOL ) to wear the injured workers down even further than their injuries or illness do. PI’s are not honorable people. If they were, THEY’D go get those jobs they think the injured workers should be hobbling and crawling to go get, no matter how much pain they’re in. The jobs that do NOT require snitching and sniveling and skulking around on their own fellow citizens for. Real patriotic work that pee eye stuff huh? Snitching on your own brothers and sisters under this great countrys flag. Well done. Bravo. Real big of ya’ zero-hero.

Injured workers are NOT claims. They’re human beings. Human beings who are used, broken, and tossed away. To say ‘go be productive’ is an enormous display of just how ignorant and souless and sick you have to be to support the conspiracy of suspicion and guilt before innocence syndrome that the insurance industry RELIES on people like you checking their brains out to lunch for. Here’s a challenge for you Earl, and I defy you to find the information. If you can, you’d be the first but there’s one little caveat to think about. A ‘pre-question’ to the question, if you will: If you cannot find the information, ask yourself WHO would want it hidden?

Here’s the question: Why can no one find the suicide rates/statistics/facts of injured workers? To make it easy on you Earl, let’s rule out suicide ‘attempts’. You can find them for morticians, ER docs, airline pilots, air traffic control, etc etc. Hmmmm…..but where are the ones for injured workers? Gee, who would have that buried?

Follow the money Earl, follow the money…

Also, purposely change your sleep patterns. Turn the lights off early at the same time every night for a week. Even pretend to sleep and use a nightlight to read. Next week, alter the light patterns in your room. The next week, get up with the dawn. Change how/when your exterior lights come on and off. One week always make sure all your window blinds are open. Whoopee! They might get a camera shot inside. Next week, keep ‘em all closed. Start a pattern, break it. Start a route, change it. Point is, they’re looking for patterns, places, people. Just keep setting the stage and then rearranging it over and over They hate that!

I do agree that the battery removal of the celly is a good idea but I’d go one farther. I’d take the SIM card out as well. You can store them in seperate baggies if you like. Place them in different areas that only you know of. Also, if you think they might be trying to hack your home network, NOW is the time to close that puppy up. And when you leave home, shut off the modem, the router, and power down your computer.

One thing I would’ve liked to have seen: How To Find Hidden Micro-cameras ( which can now be wireless ) in your home. Also, anything about defeating illegal entry or figuring out if someone’s jimmying those locks or not. The thing is, for wc claims you’re often talking about people who just do NOT have the money to invest in counter-surveillance and frankly, simply can’t physically handle installing ( and not everyone has an ideal situation of tons of friends to call on ). So, maybe something for those folks as well.

I read one story about a guy who found a wireless surveillance camera buried at the base of his tree in hopes of catching him doing kartwheels in the yard I guess. Boy the FUN I would’ve had with that thing. Anyway, it’s AT LEAST evidence that the jerk who placed it there was trespassing. Which is illegal. And no evidence gained illegally can be submitted as sub rosa evidence. Not to my knowledge anyway.

And Earl my dear, the VAST MAJORITY of injured workers ARE injured. Private eyes are a waste of money by the insurance company who SHOULD be using that money to help the injured worker get back to work OR get re-educated into another field OR, and here’s an astounding idea, see GOOD doctors instead of being sent to insurance mills. In the last decade, less than 2% of all IW’s have been proven to be fraudulent. SUSPICION is NOT proof. You types are used primarily for ONE reason…one that you do not like to admit to: YOU are being used simply to harass the IW. That’s all. Know why? The court doesn’t spend hours and hours looking at all your sub rosa. There’s just no time to. Next, they also know it’s coming from the ‘defense’ side of things. The work comp system is EXTREMELY adversarial against injured workers, but people like you NEED to believe otherwise so you can feel better about what YOU do, not because you actually believe the sick and the injured are ‘bad’ in some way. You tell yourself these things so you don’t have to think about how many IW’s are destroyed financially by insurance companies, how many families are torn apart, how many children will go hungry, how the injured workers body is often permanently reduced, how the careers they spent their whole lives learning to do, how the experience and time they gave to their companies, and how their personal pride is utterly and totally devestated. Put THOSE facts in your lopside brain and see if it can’t equalize back to normal for a second. There is no ‘gold’ and there is no ‘rainbow’ for injured workers. They are often injured and then fired and the companies get away with it and all with the help of people LIKE YOU.
They are bankrupted while they try to heal and recover physically and MANY of them can’t because they are permanently disabled and often THAT is due to the failure of recieving proper medical treatment at the onset of injury, other times merely to the accident itself. But shill doctors certainly do not help buddy boy. The IW has NO choice during the intial phase of injury about which doctor they can go to. Your assumptions are not based on fact, they are based on a very powerful and wildly profitable insurance industry, often highly unregulated compared to other underwriting fields, who has the money to spend on decades of PROPOGANDA and lobbyists. Injured workers do NOT have high powered, spoiled, and rich lobbyists representing their interests as the insurers do and have had. Their attorneys salaries are CAPPED by the state whereas the ‘defense’ attorney rep’ing the employer can demand ANY salary and they are usually 3x more expensive than any injured worker could ever hope to afford. Hey Earl, time for another brain straightener: Ever heard the term,”Follow the money” to indicate where the truth REALLY is? OK, now think real hard Earl….WHO makes more money in one year: an injured worker whose salary is reduced nearly 40% per week or an insurance industry that pulls in BILLIONS every year?

Here’s some more math Early my boy: Insurer X has 10 claimes. Insurer X hires a PI to snith on 10 claimants. Even if the professional snitch manages to twist out two seconds of video over MONTHS of surveillance that also manages to PROVE only one claim in the 10 is fraudulent, that means the insurer has to pay out on 9 claimes. Guess what? Even paying out on 9 claimes, the insurer is STILL AHEAD.

Don’t you get it? Or did watching Rockford re-runs and all those dinnertime news stories of the injured back guy digging a pool with a shovel ACTUALLY program you effectively enough to believe the drool that spilled from your brain, to your fingers, to your keyboard, and on to here?

Geezus man, do some research would ya? You’re embarassing.

DOnt make fraudlent claims and try being a productive member of society