The California Workers Compensation System does NOT enforce it's own laws and statutes already in place for the benefit of injured workers.

  • Timely diagnosis and medical treatment and approval of such treatment within the time frame set by existing laws.
  • Timely automatic benefits within the time frame set by existing law.
Workers Compensation insurers often obtain medical as well as personal information on injured workers which has no pertinence to the claim and serves no necessary purpose in resolving the claim, but rather is used as a tactic to deter and frighten claimants out of litigation and into unfair settlements. This is in violation of federal HIPAA laws.

Workers Compensation insurers willfully prolong litigation, knowing the Workers Compensation courts are overloaded with cases, causing further severe psychological, physical and financial damage to the claimants, in hopes of pushing claimants into premature and unfair settlements.

Workers Compensation insurers take advantage of their indemnity from civil suits or liability leaving injured workers with no recourse.

Workers Compensation insurers knowingly and willingly make fraudulent charges against many claimants in order to intimidate them and to avoid having to medically or financially compensate claimants.

Workers Compensation insurers are in collusion with many med-legal mill physicians to deny diagnosis and treatment in favor of getting the claimant back to work despite their medical problems, willfully neglecting needed treatment. Many physicians comply because to buck the system means the loss of a substantial number of patients.

Workers Compensation insurers willfully and knowingly shift the burden of responsibility for permanently disabled injured workers onto the already overburdened Medi-Cal and Social Security Disability systems for which the taxpayers have paid into. Why are Workers Compensation insurers allowed to get off the hook and shift this burden?

The California Workers Compensation System consistently cuts and denies benefits in order to starve claimants out and force their acceptance of inadequate, unfair settlements, causing many claimants to lose everything they have worked for; homes, vehicles, savings, etc; and forcing many into bankruptcy, loss of credit standing, and even loss of family and spouses in many cases and resulting in suicide of others.

The California Workers Compensation System forces injured workers back to work on a light duty status prior to their recovery until their compensation has expired and then their employers discriminate against them with termination because they are unable to perform their job at 100% capability.

The California Workers Compensation System consistently contends that claimant's attorney fees are the major cause for insurance premium increases to the employer when in fact litigation in the majority of cases is NOT pursued by the claimant until the Workers Compensation System forces the claimant to seek an attorney because he has been continuously denied necessary medical treatment, medications and/or supplemental benefits. The system itself is in fact, the cause of most compensation related litigation.

There are many more inequities of the California Workers Compensation System, that are too numerous to list one by one, but an investigation into the Workers Compensation system of this state will begin to reveal these inequities enough to convince the Attorney General that further investigation is indeed warranted.


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