By: msd

msd — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Small Business, If rates go up and they will if it does not pass, the business will pay the increase. That is it there is no other answer…Rates go up Jobs , new hires go away….

By: Lizathomford

Lizathomford — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:04:00 +0000

I am a victim of workplace bullying by a huge healthcare organization. Please do not sign the SB863. If anything please use the bil to stop employers bullying their employees. If they could afford to hire high paying managers to come in and set up employees for failure, than they can come in and set up employees for sucess. If employers would spend more tiime in having employees be sucessful in the workplace, we would save alot of money on Worker’s Compensation claims. Therefore, please listen to the victims of workplace bullying.

By: Elizabeth Mcdonald

Elizabeth Mcdonald — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:48:00 +0000

Gov. Brown, please don’t sign SB863. This is the worst nightmare ever for all of us who work with the system. What it appears to be and what it is are a night and day difference. A wolf in sheep’s clothing, again! This bill while again touting savings is a disaster for the injured worker, with no certainty on the savings to employers at all! Just like SB899 where is the quid pro quo? Injured workers lost, employers did not gain, insurance industry has record profits. Every time insurance cries we respond – cut benefits further, costs don’t change to the employer, but we protect the insurance industries profit. I guess that is all we (our legislators) care about. SB899 hurt everyone except insurance. Employers did not see a savings pass through, employees got benefits severely cut and the insurance industry found the loopholes to keep all the savings in the system to themselves in the way of profit. It did not work. This bill will not work either. Big insurance wins again on the back of the injured workers. Really who do you think will be controlling these IMR’s? Do you really think they will be independent? Of course not. All of you legislators are smarter than that! Continued lies to the constituents in the name of getting a vote. Sure why not, lets have the insurance industry controlling all phases of a claim. Why fight it anymore. What do we needs judges for anyway? Lets keep them out of the loop on the most important phases of a claim. That is exactly what this bill does. Anyone who works in and with the system knows this. More hypocrisy and idiocy. Gov. Brown please talk to people who work in the system – please quit listening to big insurance or the politicians whose pockets are lined by them. I for one do not believe the lies and will make sure anyone I talk to knows the truth. Clearly the Workers’ Compensation system does not matter to you wealthy legislators who can buy whatever medical care you want. Currently there are so many delays, denials, I haven’t seen one single case administered correctly or by the law since SB899 passed. There was no swift delivery of medical care. It did not happen. Why? No real penalties to the employer or insurer for denying claims early with no investigation – so most claims are denied regardless of whether the claim is viable. Thus, there is no referral to medical care at all. There is no penalty enough in the system to stop the behavior. Further, people who filed claims were terminated in record numbers. Thanks for leaving injured workers’ without a remedy at all! Claims denied, employment terminated, no insurance so no medical care, no job so no money, months to get a panel QME (DIR very far behind), no one will agree to an AME, months even a year to get a med-legal eval., treatment after if you win, then UR reviews or should I say denials ….. ridiculous. The injured worker is left with nothing while we administer the new system. None of these problems are resolved by the new bill, just a lot more constraints on the IW with no remedy. We can’t even go before the WCAB on these issues. Really we treat zoo animals better than injured workers’ – treatment when injured, a roof over their head and regular meals. Workers’ compensation for low income individuals is the only way they can get care for their injury – this care was decimated by SB899 and gone, as far as I can tell with SB863. What penalty for denying a claim within 24 hours of notice and not complying with §5401 and §5402??? None!! Really!!! So go ahead pass another set of laws that no one follows in the name of savings that are promised, but not realized, nor written into law. Let’s continue to fix the system by literally continuing to break the injured workers’ back. No one seems to be listening to IW anyway. Clearly money talks and money wins – insurance industry prevails again. Where is the penalty to them for not complying? For not passing through savings? For bad faith denial? There is none – again. Please think twice before you really screw the people who voted for you – police, firefighter, telecommunications employees, nurses, city and county government workers, social workers, child welfare workers, teachers, doctors, attorneys – this is who I represent and always will. Who do you? Insurance? We’ll see. I hope not.

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