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Women awarded $84,000 in worker's compensation due to carpal tunnel syndrome

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  1. BringDownMugabe

    BringDownMugabe Well-Known Member

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    Interesting case. On one note, you have a woman who has been doing her job for years and as a result, has gotten hurt. However, you have a surgeon who found no medical evidence to support her claim that her job is what caused the injuries.

    Additionally, what stood out was the surgery was paid for by taxpayers and than on top of that, according to state law, she can still receive damages.
     
    BringDownMugabe, Dec 21, 2011
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    BringDownMugabe Well-Known Member

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    bump........
     
    BringDownMugabe, Dec 21, 2011
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    PatrickT Well-Known Member

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    Woo-hoo, another one hits the workers comp lottery.

    You have to love carpal tunnel, back injuries, and those pesky permanently disabling emotional disabilities.
     
    PatrickT, Dec 21, 2011
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  4. BringDownMugabe

    BringDownMugabe Well-Known Member

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    So if you had carpal tunnel, you wouldn't pursue compensation for your injury you received from your job?
     
    BringDownMugabe, Dec 21, 2011
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    Rapunzel New Member Past Donor

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    More liberal crap.
     
    Rapunzel, Dec 21, 2011
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    webrockk Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    If you build it, they will come.
     
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    Rapunzel New Member Past Donor

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    Something like that...LOL
     
    Rapunzel, Dec 21, 2011
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    :lol:

    We see the reason why Insurance companies own all the biggest buildings you see!

    She is working at a job 20 years doing something KNOWN to cause the problems she has, how could ANYONE "prove" the injuries were caused SPECIFICALLY by the work?

    I guarantee you, you wouldn't LOVE those maladies if you HAD them.

    And rest assured, most people who get them don't get any money for them.

    That is why this case is in the news!


    People should watch for this documentary about the Macdonald's coffee-in-lap-lady, and other mythical "lawsuit jackpots"!

    http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp
     
    fiddlerdave, Dec 21, 2011
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    Ever had a work related injury Patrick?
     
    lizarddust, Dec 21, 2011
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    The doctor is an idiot. Typing on a keyboard for hours at a time is going to make your hands stiff and sore. It's happened to all of us. Typing on a keyboard for 20 will almost certainly cause some damage.

    How else do they think she ended with carpal tunnel? Sending too many text messages while at work?
     
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    Another hero cashes in at the expense of those evil businesses. Liberals rejoice. Getting paid for doing nothing is their collective goal.
     
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    Makedde New Member Past Donor

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    Conservatives never get ill from work, remember. Even if they do, they keep working because unlike liberals, money is more important than health.
     
    Makedde, Dec 21, 2011
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    No,, conservatives don't work. They have their slaves do it for them.
     
    lizarddust, Dec 22, 2011
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    Paying health claims IS the BUSINESS of workman's comp insurance companies.

    We understand it is the INSURANCE companies want to get paid for doing nothing, that is why people have to go to court to get the money due them!

    And then that lady probably had lawyer fees and expenses of $40,000 MINIMUM to win that lawsuit.
     
    fiddlerdave, Dec 22, 2011
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    Someone please tell me why I still work? I need to come up with a fake injury & get on the gravy train.
     
    Jarlaxle, Dec 22, 2011
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    That poor lady was FORCED to work at her job.
     
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    Heck, I get hand cramps from writing and typing invoices all day at my business. Where in the hell is my worker's compensation? :rolleyes:
     
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    A clever lawyer would have had her sign the check on video. ;)


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  19. Clint Torres

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    sounds like every Public school in the USA. Union backed welfare for massive bucks.\
    Best part is the patient will get full pay and work only 1/4th the time, and still retire with full Gubment Chees retirement benifits. Just like all the tens of thousand cases in State Government employment.

    Those Unions are a Malingerer's Magnet that attract the worst of the worst.
     
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  20. BringDownMugabe

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    She's part of a union?
     
    BringDownMugabe, Dec 23, 2011
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    As soon as you develop permanent injury to the nerves in your wrist, then you can get it. Hardly a fair compensation. $40,000 (after lawyer's fees) probably won't even cover the medical treatment.
     
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    Your cramps are not permanent. You will recover.
     
    Makedde, Dec 23, 2011
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    Makedde New Member Past Donor

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    LOL. I can just imagine what would happen if the woman quit her job because her hands were aching.
    I can picture the thread title right now:

    Liberal Refuses To Work, Says Hands Hurt and the cons would go crazy.
     
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    If she is, she will make bank in a government employees union. If not she should have pulled that off in a State or City Job, With a union supporting her she would be set for life.

    $84K is squat in todays real world It wont last 3 years.
     
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    fiddlerdave Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Well, GO GET IT!

    More Right wingers need to try to get on this "gravy train" to discover how much of it is fantasy.
     
    fiddlerdave, Dec 23, 2011
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