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You want to hear about workmans comp, well I am going to tell you of two cases.

First, My SO was a nurse in an hospital and was working on her floor when one of her patients after having a major operation on his own makes up his mind to get out of bed because he refuses to use a bed pan. My SO notices that the readings on his monitor are very screwy and goes to his room to check on him.

She catches him coming out of the restroom and goes to help him. He tells her that "he doesn't need any damn help and to get out of his way." She backs off but stays in case he has any problems, and of course he does. He manages to trip over his own feet and in the process grabs the front of her uniform pushing her over backwards. As she hits the floor he lands on top of her and in the process of all this she recieves a back injury.

It takes four other nurses to get thi guy off of her, he is not a small man, and she ends going to the emergency room on a gurney. They X-ray her back and say they can't see anything and then release her to go home. Even though she can't walk she goes back up to her floor and files an accident report and documents everything in her nurses notes.

The next day she is off and very sore and tender as you would expect. She sits down on our couch to relax but can't get comfortable. She goes to get up and she can't, the pain is so bad she has tears in her eyes. She has me take her to the Doctor and he refers her to the Hospitals Nuro Surgen.

After doing a MRI he tells her that she has a back injury and she needs surgery to relive the pressure on her spinal cord. When she reports all this to her supervisor she is prompt told that they don't know what she is talking about.
This is where I get our lawyer involved.

Lucky for us she made copies of the accident report and her nurses notes, but even so we need the originals and guess what they say they couldn't find them. This drags on for months. After consulting with us our lawyer suponeas all the Hospitals Records for the month that it happened. When I say all records I mean "all" of the Hospitals records for that month. We then go to pick up the records with a sheriff's deputy and the hospital tells us we can't have the records. But with assistance from 5 more sherriff's deputies they suddenly find her records and turn them over.

Well now they have been stalling it in court after denying her workmens comp claim for 8 years now and who knows how long that will continue. Oh and by the way the night they carried her down to the ER they had the gall to send us the bill for her treatment.

The Hospital Adminstrator has had the gall to ask us to drop the the case three or for times and I always give him the same answer, "When Hell Freezes Over."

The Other case involes me, I stepped in a hole at work and tore up my knee. The company I work for sent me to thee company doctor and then sent me to one of the best knee doctors in the country. They paid me workmens comp while I was off, paid all medical and rehab cost, and checked on us constantly to see if we needed anything until I got back to work. I have nothing but praise for them and they way they handled the whole thing. I signed a release a year and a half after I returned to work on the provision that if I ever had any further problems I could get Medical treatment.

Workmens Comp can be a Blessing or pure Hell depending on who you are dealing with! Good Luck !

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