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Things To Know While You're In The Comp System
Florida statutes on workers comp - Chapter
440
Medical
section - 440.13
Summary
of SB 50A
What
Can We Do To Cause Change?
Misconceptions About Comp
What You Do In The Name Of Insurance
Florida DFS Fines Workers' Comp Carriers
What
is the human cost?
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Three things
you should know about working in Florida
1. It is not safe to get injured on the job in Florida.
2. The work may injure you; the workers compensation system can
cripple you.
3. The delays,
denials and unethical treatment by insurance companies can defraud
you out of everything you have worked and planned for.
Please use this
site for keeping abreast of the efforts of injured workers in
Florida
through Voices,
Inc.
Here you will find
a wealth of information at the links provided to the left.
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Why is this site
necessary?
To provide information to injured workers and their advocates.
Why is that
necessary?
Read on....
The workers compensation
system in Florida is broken, leaving behind further-injured bodies
and ruined lives.
Unless you happen to be a workers comp insurance carrier.
Then you're insulated from the results of any wrong-doing
as a result of
1- inadequate legislation,
2- laughable enforcement and
3- wickedly large contributions to legislators
who claim to remain uninfluenced
4-and legal language crafted for its own self-interest by industry
lobbyists.
How cozy is that?!
The political contributions made by insurance carriers are not
made stealthily.
Instead, they are flaunted in the faces of Floridians by so-called
business advocates
with public pronouncements
of their intentions to buy the next Florida elections.
The workers who have been promised good care are being ignored,
mistreated, and cheated.
Their compensation is instead being used for political influence
of persons who will then promote and support legislation that
allows further mistreatment of the injured and further lines
the pockets of the stockholders of the insurance carriers.
When the carriers fail
to act in good faith and delay and deny legal compensation and
medical treatment, the law fails to provide for adequate legal
recourses for the injured worker.
Who do you think can last
longer in a protracted legal fight over YOUR medical treatment
- you or a multibillion dollar insurance company?
The only positive recourses are
-- to stand together,
-- use the democratic process in knowledgeable and effective
ways,
-- be proactive with your own medical and legal care,
--become an active, informed citizen who advocates for improvement
and
--join Voices,
Inc., the premier
advocacy group for the rights of injured workers in Florida.
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