Reply #9: My housemate was hurt on 911 [View All]

[tkulesa]

She was one of the survivors, but she got seriously messed up. She has now joined our ranks with a depressingly large number of permanent medical problems.

We figured that because she was hurt at the WTC she wasn't going to be attacked and demonized the way so many of us have been. Wrong. Annually Challenged doesn't even begin to describe how workers comp is treating her.

The insurance company petitions to lower her (minimal) benefits every few months claiming that she has recovered and no longer qualifies. This is even though all of the doctors, including their own doctors, agree that she is 100% disabled and has medical issues that are still not properly diagnosed.

For God's sake, she is in the emergency room at least once per month. The last time because she is having muscle spasms in her heart and they don't know why.

They cancel her benefits because they haven't received a report from her doctors, when the request only just arrived a few days before.

They sent private investigators to follow her around. They sent teams of lawyers who know nothing about her to go in an argue that the doctors are all wrong and she is really a fraud and a faker. Because we all know that faking an injury through workers comp is worth so damned much money. :eyes:

They have spent far more money on PIs and attorneys to harrass her than they would ever pay in workers comp and medical payments.

We both agree that there must be automatic challenges mandated by bureaucratic policy that say to harrass people, challenge people and attack people regardless of how badly they are hurt. Every few months you come to the top of the list to be attacked again. Annually Challenged is a good way to describe it, but that's being nice about it.