ORLANDO, Fla. -- Injured employees of companies like Lynx and Republic Services are accusing a company doctor of denying claims to save money.

This report features Lynx driver Mary Robels, who was involved in a vehicle crash in May 2005.

Videotape of the crash showed Robels limping after the collision. But when she reported to the company physician, Dr. Jock Snedden, he gave the veteran Lynx driver three days off and then sent her back to work.

"You tell them there is something wrong with you and they don't want to listen to you and the proof is right there," Robels said. "I told him to his face, I hope you can sleep at night."

"Why did he refuse to give you an X-ray or MRI?" Local 6's Mike Holfeld asked.

"You are going to have to ask him that," Robels said.

Two orthopedic specialists agreed that Robels needed knee surgery after looking at her.

As for Snedden's argument that it wasn't work-related, a court-ordered specialist wrote, "I find this implausible!"

"He was implying that it was arthritis," Robels said.

Snedden's occupational resource center is the gatekeeper for hundreds of worker's compensation insurance claims.

A growing number of his patients are going public because they claim that his diagnoses simply don't add up, Holfeld reported.

Darlene Powell said she could barely walk after injuring her knee on the job. Yet, despite the pain, Snedden determined she was ready to go back to work.

When Snedden would not approve a specialist, Powell said she paid for one herself.

"He diagnosed me incorrectly," Powell said. "Maybe if he had taken an MRI and had it done, maybe he would have seen what the specialist saw."

Also, Albert Zayas, 45, is recovering from surgery to repair two herniated discs.

Zayas is a driver for Republic Waste Services and said he was injured while lifting an apartment trash bin filled with rocks and debris.

The MRIs showed that Zayas had two bulging discs.

Snedden said it was an old injury and not work-related, Holfeld reported.

"He said that there was no possible way that it was a head trauma or like a say, a recent car accident," Zayas said.

However, Zayas' surgeon noted the evidence immediately, Holfeld reported.

"He looked at it and he said, 'Did you lift something heavy,'" Zayas said.

"Those were his words?" Holfeld said.

"Those were his words and I said, 'Yes,'" Zayas said.

Veteran worker's comp attorney Monty Shoemaker said injured workers are at a disadvantage because they have to report to the company doctor.

"Who do they believe, the medical doctor or the injured worker?" Shoemaker said.

Snedden denied any medical agenda in favor or the company, Holfeld reported.

In a phone call last week, Snedden said some patients don't want to hear they have a pre-existing injury, the report said.

Holfeld reported that Snedden agreed to sit down with Local 6 to discuss the alleagtions, but that has not happened.