The solution seems easy. Close Menard and move the prisoners to the now empty, but brand new state of the art facility in Thompson. Everything is electronic there and would end the repetitive motion claims.
Has anyone examined the stats on cause of loss from the 90’s and early 2000’s? If those guys didn’t get “repetitive stress” from unlicking prison gates manually, why the sudden rash of these injuries now?
This is clearly frausing the system. There would also appear to be collusion between the parties involved. And no one noted this rash of expensive claims? Unbelievable.
This is typical downstate IL where WC/SS disability/medicare and medicaid fraud is a cottage industry. this is also typical IL in general, where if there is a WC scam to be found, it will be found.
As a former Southern Illinois resident, I was always amazed at the number of people there who thought it was o.k. to live off work comp. For many, this was a way of life for both individual and family. The coal mines were thought of as ‘good jobs’. When those went away, the same dispossessed workers tried to get on in the prison system, this was thought of as good money, but not as good paying as the mines. I personally witnessed a co worker choke on a bone from a meal she had brought from home at lunch. She was heimiched by the boss, who saved her life. Taken over to the hospital to be checked out, all o.k, given afternoon off, all costs paid for by the company. The very next day she filed a WC claim saying she was injured at work by choking on the bone. We worked for a health insurance company ( think Blue). When asked what her injury was for the claim, she replied, well, I choked didn’t I? Her husband had been collecting WC for years and did not work, just stayed home, no noticeable impairment. All of these prison workers found to be committing WC fraud should be sent to the very same prisons to serve some time on the other side.
The solution seems easy. Close Menard and move the prisoners to the now empty, but brand new state of the art facility in Thompson. Everything is electronic there and would end the repetitive motion claims.
Has anyone examined the stats on cause of loss from the 90’s and early 2000’s? If those guys didn’t get “repetitive stress” from unlicking prison gates manually, why the sudden rash of these injuries now?
This is clearly frausing the system. There would also appear to be collusion between the parties involved. And no one noted this rash of expensive claims? Unbelievable.
This is typical downstate IL where WC/SS disability/medicare and medicaid fraud is a cottage industry. this is also typical IL in general, where if there is a WC scam to be found, it will be found.
The WARDEN got 75,000? Unbelievable.
As a former Southern Illinois resident, I was always amazed at the number of people there who thought it was o.k. to live off work comp. For many, this was a way of life for both individual and family. The coal mines were thought of as ‘good jobs’. When those went away, the same dispossessed workers tried to get on in the prison system, this was thought of as good money, but not as good paying as the mines. I personally witnessed a co worker choke on a bone from a meal she had brought from home at lunch. She was heimiched by the boss, who saved her life. Taken over to the hospital to be checked out, all o.k, given afternoon off, all costs paid for by the company. The very next day she filed a WC claim saying she was injured at work by choking on the bone. We worked for a health insurance company ( think Blue). When asked what her injury was for the claim, she replied, well, I choked didn’t I? Her husband had been collecting WC for years and did not work, just stayed home, no noticeable impairment. All of these prison workers found to be committing WC fraud should be sent to the very same prisons to serve some time on the other side.
I could not agree more with you on what goes in in so IL. But you forgot to include Social Security Disability scams…after the WC runs out….
Sad state of affairs in our very sad state…