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Injured Abroad, Neglected at Home
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Filed under: AIG and CNA, KBR | Tagged: Afghanistan, AIG, Civilian Contractor, DBA, DBA Attorneys, Defense Base Act, Defense Base Act Workmans Compensation, Iraq, Terry Marshall, War Hazards Act, War Zones
I have been looking for the documeny “Workmans compensation A guide for the employee” or alternatively a guide to how benefits are paid out. I am new to the disuccion board so forgive me if it here and I havent noticed.
Sorry, my e mail adress was given incorrectly
The Defense Base Act Workmans Compensation
A guide for the employee
is a website where you can find links to the Defense Base Act, the War Hazards Act, and the Longshore Harborworkers Workmans Compensation Act which is the basis for the DBA.
http://www.dbacomp.com
The Acts themselves do not seem so complicated.
The Defense Base Act pretty well states what benefits you are entitled to and how much.
Then the insurance companies, their lawyers, and oddly enough the Department of Labors Claims examiners will “interpret” the Act in ways which are often detrimental to the injured contractor.
When you get as far as a hearing, which can take as long as six years, you may then find the AOlJ Judge and Benefits Review Boards “interpreting” the Acts as well.
These interpretations are said to be based on past determinations, which were also based on interpretations of the DBA.
Good luck with your research.
Please feel free to share any answers you find.
I have just received a written response from the Department of Justice regarding my request for information and an investigation of the organized insurance company crimes in multiple forms of insurance, including the DBA crimes that have been listed on this and other DBA websites.
Normally I would not post anything this sensitive on a website but I am doing so because I am concerned for my safety because of the extreme lack of conscience of the insurance companies involved, and their awareness that I am seeking widespread prosections for organized crime.
You can see the combined evidence by going to http://www.judgesquotes.blogspot.com
Thanks to this DBA blog administrator and all of you for allowing me to post here !!
Barry Schmittou
If the people that represent you arent doing anything about this crap then vote them out. We need just one congressperson with the guts to investigate these criminals. YES THEY ARE CRIMINALS…i have ptsd from being shot and 12 months of convoy and recovery.
i also spent 10 months at a place called bucca till my feet went bad from walking on large rocks. kbr had the audacity to say it wasnt work related..guess thats sop for the a holes. between a.i.g. , k.b.r. and the labor dept. how can a person win? the deck is stacked and it was before we even got there. the sad thing is no one in gov’t cares..oh they will give lib service but in 5 years i havent seen any changes..no one has been hired at labor to handle these cases since the war began and a.i.g. is protected by the gov’t because of their campaign contributions. kbr is just as bad if not worse.