Required Reading for ALJ’s and Claimants Lawyers, Vicariously experienced traumas

Assessing Combat Exposure and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
in Troops and Estimating the Costs to Society
Implications from the RAND Invisible Wounds of War Study
http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2009/RAND_CT321.pdf
‘Major depression is often not considered a combat-related injury;
however, our analyses suggest that it is highly associated with
combat exposure and should be considered in the spectrum of
post-deployment mental health consequences.’
‘Assuming that the prevalence found [...]

DoL Cracks Down on DBA Paperwork

In a promising new change of heart from the Department of Labor……
word is they are requiring the insurance companies to start handling paperwork properly.
Word also is that CNA’s claims adjuster is under particular scrutiny.
Let’s hope that those who have falsely denied medical and lost wages
by filing LS 207’s that say things like “deny all issues” [...]

Dear Rep Kucinich and the Domestic Policy Committee

This is a Posting by T Lee Marshall
He’d like you to add your questions to his as comments below
Dear Rep. Dennis Kucinich,
 Has AIG  any credibility left?
Open any newspaper and AIG jumps out at you in big, black letters.   Mention AIG and you get a look of disgust and a full understanding requiring nothing more said.  
Congress [...]

Bullshit as Science- The Fake Bad Scale

Bullshit as Science: A Test for Malingerers
Paul Lees-Haley, PhD, is a psychologist who has come up with a 43 question test to separate the truly disabled from malingerers. Lees-Haley is either a genius or a pompous fraud right out of Mark Twain. Read on and decide for yourself. (This posting is based upon an article [...]

Test for Fingering Malingerers Comes Under Fire

This is from last year but in light of current events we think it’s a good time to discuss the Fake Bad Scale and those who rely on it, like AIG and Dr Griffith   see more on Dr Griffith at the X Files
The Wall Street Journal Blog
Have you ever been accused of faking badly? Today, [...]

Broad Agreement that Worker’s Comp Program for War Zone Workers Needs Fixing

News Analysis: Broad Agreement That Workers’ Comp Program for War-Zone Workers Needs Fixing
by T. Christian Miller – June 23, 2009 5:10 pm EDT         Original Story here

Daniel Brink, a South African, applied to Chicago-based insurer CNA for his medical benefits but said CNA declined some benefits owed to him. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)
Congressional hearings generally [...]

CNA Damage Control

CNA must have paid handsomely for this Press Release disguised as a report on the hearing.
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2383496/
But is the real damage control found here ? (also a press release)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/CNA-Announces-New-Name-New-bw-2155844976.html?x=0&.v=1
 
A little background on CNA Financial
CNA Financial is the umbrella organization for a wide range of insurers, including Continental Casualty and Continental Assurance. The company is focused on [...]

Fallen Fathers, Civpol, Alumni Dyncorp

We are so blogged down with the fighting with CNA and AIG that we sometimes forget the employer of the fallen. Let me fill you in what Dyncorp did to me:
 
After being removed from the CNA building in Chicago, I stopped in Dubai on the way back from the USA. I went to the Dyncorp [...]

Risk Transfer Without Risk

As always Jon Copplelman at Workmans Comp Insider puts it in words like no one else
“Something cruel, heartless and cynical took place in the back rooms of carriers with responsibility for civilian claims. If you like Edgar Alan Poe, you’ll love the claims files of AIG and CNA.”
Risk Transfer Without Risk
The Defense Base Act (DBA) [...]

Father Days Tribute to our Fallen Fathers

We couldn’t help but to think of our Contractor families who are without their Fathers today.
We have only one tribute up so far, albeit one close to our hearts.

http://defensebaseactcomp.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/in-memory-of-tim-eysslinck/
Please add your tributes here today so that we may honor them all.  We’ll get them their own page.
We are thinking of you all today.