would you like to meet a few surviors who will never get well, but have no legal recousrse to carrier fraud, and willfull interference with medical care. Or maybe the families of those who died or comit suicide to escaper the suffering and poverty carriers create. If we can produce a few thousand dead bodies could we call it genocide?
iris
Big stars. Morgan Fairchild who was famous in the 80’s (still doable though) and the Revenge of the Nerds guy. And, they’re filming in the sitcom capital of the world – Bradenton.
Plus, nothing is funnier than insurance. This is a sure hit.
Most claims ARE NOT fraudulent, but many insurance carriers commit fraud upon the innocent victims of occupational injuries and hide behind the premise of litigation privilege to shield them from any criminal charges. By the insurance industry’s own admission injured worker fraud is less than 1%. So why don’t we hear about the other 99%. It’s all about the money!
more anti worker propaganda… or the truth about medical atrocities, legal trickery, state corruption, frauded and destitute families, and mass murder???? iris
This is as funny a plot as an worker who sent back to work with an undiagnosed broken leg or an insurance company owner with a couple of heart attacks or the $1.97 Billion one corrupt insurer left the employees and taxpayers “holding the bag” in the State of California.
It was allowed to change it accounting methods and transfer $200 Million from the insurance company to its Investment and loan bank which later become the third largest subprime lender in the United States before it was also was shut down by the FDIC in 2007.
I wish them well. We need more shows like this. Aren’t you tired of the reality drivel that is shoved down your throat? Laugh tracks that queue you when your supposed to laugh. How idiotic is that? Lemmings, all of you who can’t open your little pee brained minds to something new and courageous as this. Give it a chance. If you don’t want to watch, then don’t.
WC in not a laughing matter. We have a new client who has a landscaping business who had a $125,000 claim because one of his employees tore his Achilles tendon. No laughing matter indeed. Now his rates went sky rocketing and he’s out there shopping for a better rate.
I don’t waist my time with reality shows. The Discovery, History, and Biography channels are worth your looking into.
There is no such thing as bad PR…..anyway while most insjuries are not fake the motivations for RTW from a WC accident vs an accident on personal time is the problem…aka milking the system, its just human.
The term “inside baseball” comes to mind. There’s a whole lotta detail that is going to have to be broken down for people who are not in the field to understand. What percent of the TV watching population knows the difference between a 1.0 and a 1.5 mod? Or how it’s calculated? I’m not sure how much humor can be found in a premium audit–not much, would be my guess.
Might as well have Stephen Hawking write a sitcom so all the mathmeticians can have a laugh.
I do think, however, that this firm could be of some dramatic use as a source of sub-plots, and the family could be the focus of the show–kind of like Arrested Development with the Bluth property development company. That show was freakin hilarious!
I laughed one time and milk came out through my nose. I wonder if they would write a script around that? Heck–if they keep giving Charlie Sheen air time, my idea is sure to be a hit!!
What about a script for a national health plan established by a community organizer who has never had a main street American occupantion (& gladly took in 37,000 in foreign donations to promote himself & the plan) to establish a utopic, new era government that is going to run it & pay for it?
Just think; There could be fun episodes where people are dying while still standing in line for services, & (just like at the Post Office), 5:00pm arives and they close the counter?
Or we can see another hilarious episode where the 23 year old, out of work, drug abuser & alcoholic & gets a new liver transplant and we see the grovelling 68 year old accomplished man in otherwise good health get declined due to his age.
Think of the advertisements sold for products & so forth that the producers of this sitcom could pull in!
how can they make comedy of fraud, destitute families, torture, medical atrocities, murder, and the governmental corruption that allows insurance carriers to commit every crime in the book and never get their hands slapped. They are still busy paying propaganda to slander the sick and disabled, they have the money to buy air time adds, lawmakers and lawyers, meanwile when they fund the fraud investigation unit only the workers are persecuted. There are no fake injuries found in serious studies, one out of 2000 or so, but its rarely convictable crime..carriers and employer fraud is thousand of times worse… but ” if you tell the lie often enough the people will come to believe it” joseff Goerbels..( Hitlers minister of propaganda) Ive never seen an adjuster go to jail for killing or crippling for company profit. (and maybe a bonus). iris
nothing to lighten up about if you had witnessed the aftermath of carrier fraud… Thats why there have been several investigations, several books on the market, and tens of thousands who will never get well and go back to work.
This is no comedy- reality show and hothing funny about it
I am glad to see that someone has taken an interest in Wotker’s Compensation. I hope that at some point in this series, real awareness can be brought forth about the way some insurance adjusters are allowed to treat injured worker’s without any real monitoring from the state. My reason for saying this is, I am an injured work and my only goal was to get the broken bones in my wrist fixed and go back to work. A little over eight months later I still have several broken bones in the wrist, (one that was just detected two weeks ago), and I am still going back and forth with worker’s comp. I know that there are probably people out there who try to beat the system, however when there is a clear injury, it should be taken care of. This injury has just caused me to become homeless. Yes, homeless. A veteran of the U.S. Navy and a mother of two children that I have raised as a single mother all of their lives. Although I know that the series is meant to be lighthearted, maybe someone will pay attention. Some citizens love their jobs!!!!!
I certainly hope they show at least a small part of the fraud that is committed by “injured workers” which is about 30% of the claims filed against insurance companies. I love the surveillance videos of the people who claim they are permanently disabled from a work injury and then get filmed mowing the lawn, riding motorcycles, playing tug of war at a family party, or filling their prescriptions from numerous doctors and then selling them on the street. But I doubt that this show will reveal what really goes on in WC.
lots of false propaganda out there. The disabled dont have lobby money or air time. check out a few books ” all american holocaust”… or “depraved indifference”, or “disposeable people”, or “dont get hurt at work in america” or “a job to die for” for starters. llearn the different between truth and propaganda.dj
So much of our population is being deceived & influenced by the rich and powerful who use the media for their own brand of propaganda. National statistics prove that 1% of WC claimants commit fraud. Mysteriously unchecked is the other 99% of a system thought to be fraudridden. WC Insurers have been showing that same old fabricated video of an injured worker hopping a fence for yrs. But creating a wacky,kookie Sitcom of a corrupt system is the perfect cover up.
PDLJNK I hope you get your statistics right. The research by oregon, calif, n.y. nycosh, pirg, and various journalists and foundations have it broken down , and find that carrier and employer fraud is a much greater problem… after all adjusters have unconstitutional blanket immunity. Ronny Reagan believed that line so he cut off all social security disability cases pending hearings… 23000 died waiting for the hearings (one showed up in an iron lung). The states labor department could only find i/2 to 1/3rd of one percent of claims that were questionable…But the industry keeps up the propaganda laughing all the way to the offshore banks. as the dead bodies pile up all over the country. They own the hospitals and clinics and can make evidence disappear so easily.. especially if the claimsnt cant get copies.
Worker deaths in the U.S. from toxic exposures, other work illnesses are conservatively estimated by NIOSH and other researchers at 50,000 to 60,000 lives lost each year. Another over 5,000 fatalities occur each year in the U.S. from work injuries. It is a disaster of monumental proportions.
While the United States has set permissible exposure limits on less than 500 of the hundreds of thousands of chemicals in use in workplaces, the EU regulates 30,000 chemicals utilized in their workplaces, and many that we allow here have been banned for years in the EU.
Worker deaths often cost a corporation far less than correcting a safety/health hazard in the workplace; and the employer is virtually immune from prosecution for the depraved indifference that results in severe injury, toxic exposure, or death.
It is a major and costly health issue – costly in lives, and costly in dollars.
And you think all this is an appropriate subject for a television comedy?!
My comment must have really struck a nerve. It has been getting many comments despite what they say and I guess the Insurance Journal folks want to suppress the truth.
I am not the only one willfully and deliberately crippled for life by carrier crime.. I know several others. If I sound bitter… yeh let me smash your spine and make radiology films dissapear and forge and alter documents for you cant ge treated. (your doc can be paid to lie)if the carrier own the clinic. See how long you can stand the agony. worst of it is no one went to jail.
Diane,
I am fairly new to this site, but I knew that you sounded like someone who knows first hand how wc operates. unfortunately, I am only nine months in and just getting started. It is amazing to me how wc”s actions can even be legal!!! I must say that I am shocked to learn that I am not alone. I have heard so many horror stories in these last few months. Good luck to you.
good luck lisa… there are three pieces of paper you need to start a claim injury report signed by boss or supervisor, 2, initial doctor report( hope the carrier does not own the clinic) and 3, your application with dept of comp. keep copies so they cant “lose it”. Keep copies of every medical and legal paper even mailing envelopes, and films, or other test results so they cant be tampered with…check out injured worker .org Oregon or Injured workers alliance.. lots of groups out there now… growing in every state. contact me in peron for guidance… my book is also avilable used… and soon on line.. its called workers compensation….all american holocaust. the newest is by dr.Patrice Woeppel called depraved indifference.. another “dont get hurt at work in america” I could go on. perpre to live with zero income and zero medical treatment for a long time. good luck!
Thank you so much Diane. I feel so blessed to have stumbled upon this site. I need every bit of helpful information I can get my hands on. I am living this nightmare right now. Just thrown out on the street last month with no place to go because I cannot take care of myself, nor can I pay my bills. It does not matter that I am a single mother, veteran of the U.S. Navy or a worker that worked 84 hours every week just to make ends meet. Good luck to you and anyone else in this horrible situation.
this site is run by the insurance industry… usually pro industry.. check out veterans for change.org as well they may help. work comp usually leaves claimants destitute and homeless thats the plan. Me if had to leave the us for treatments when contract was breeced by carrier. but there are many activists drawing attention to the usual fraud and corruption in this system in every state. ask larry at or how to reach me.
illegitimi non carborundum… dont let the bastards grind you down. dj
It is about time to inject some glamour into the Insurance Industry. I have been handling w/c claims for 25 years and just when I think I have seen it all another surprise lurks around the corner. My co-workers & I cannot wait for this show!
who wants to be famous for depriving sick and injured of medical help? sick! Every adjuster should look and count the dead bodies in the archives after a few years..iris
I am shocked that an adjuster or anyone would be excited about any show that makes light of the work these insurance companies are doing. Everyone may not agree, and I know that it is just a show, but if you haven’t lived this nightmare, I wouldn’t expect you to understand. It just goes to show everyone how clueless they are, (the adjusters), when it comes to the pain and suffering of the injured. Diane, I know you were sensored. Did you say your info is in your book?
Yes, last time I did a radio talk show… (one of dozens) The organizers in my state were talking to the top team of investigative reporters who are regularly on n.p.r. they are called “project censored” and do a show every sunday called “for the record”. I have the honor of having been booted off the airwaves, and replaced by an old re-run. we stepped on political toes. pen name.. Iris B
I would really enjoy watching this show when it is released.
I was in the claim business for 30 years handling WC, Liab, Auto and Property. There are additional great stories in all of those areas that should also be looked at when the workers compensations stories are played out.
as for workers comp, and auto injuries.. as long as the insurance cartel is taking over hospitals and clinics and rehab facilities nationally, its easy to make it appear that the most badly injured have no problems…all they must do is make evidence dissappear from all files.. I have that documented in my book. The military figured out long ago that the quicker you patch ’em up the less chance of permanant pain and disability… the industry delays all patch up jobs, leaving them suffer and die destitute. sop iris
I am so tickled to see this! I am a senior workers’ compensation claims adjuster and have been doing this for 32 years. I have been saying for years they should make a comedy out of this profession because between the wierd claims we get, the people we deal with and our own lives it would be a never ending show. If you run out of material feel free to contact me for more!
Why do I get the feeling this show will do little to dispel the “Insurance Companies are Crooks” mindset of the American public?
would you like to meet a few surviors who will never get well, but have no legal recousrse to carrier fraud, and willfull interference with medical care. Or maybe the families of those who died or comit suicide to escaper the suffering and poverty carriers create. If we can produce a few thousand dead bodies could we call it genocide?
iris
Why do I get the feeling that it won’t be seen by enough of the American Public to matter!
Big stars. Morgan Fairchild who was famous in the 80’s (still doable though) and the Revenge of the Nerds guy. And, they’re filming in the sitcom capital of the world – Bradenton.
Plus, nothing is funnier than insurance. This is a sure hit.
Most claims ARE NOT fraudulent, but many insurance carriers commit fraud upon the innocent victims of occupational injuries and hide behind the premise of litigation privilege to shield them from any criminal charges. By the insurance industry’s own admission injured worker fraud is less than 1%. So why don’t we hear about the other 99%. It’s all about the money!
I doubt this show will ever last a season….
more anti worker propaganda… or the truth about medical atrocities, legal trickery, state corruption, frauded and destitute families, and mass murder???? iris
This is as funny a plot as an worker who sent back to work with an undiagnosed broken leg or an insurance company owner with a couple of heart attacks or the $1.97 Billion one corrupt insurer left the employees and taxpayers “holding the bag” in the State of California.
http://www.caclo.org/perl/index.pl?document_id=a5f622e459a9c250e9488d28f845b9de
It was allowed to change it accounting methods and transfer $200 Million from the insurance company to its Investment and loan bank which later become the third largest subprime lender in the United States before it was also was shut down by the FDIC in 2007.
There is a great plot here.
I wish them well. We need more shows like this. Aren’t you tired of the reality drivel that is shoved down your throat? Laugh tracks that queue you when your supposed to laugh. How idiotic is that? Lemmings, all of you who can’t open your little pee brained minds to something new and courageous as this. Give it a chance. If you don’t want to watch, then don’t.
WC in not a laughing matter. We have a new client who has a landscaping business who had a $125,000 claim because one of his employees tore his Achilles tendon. No laughing matter indeed. Now his rates went sky rocketing and he’s out there shopping for a better rate.
I don’t waist my time with reality shows. The Discovery, History, and Biography channels are worth your looking into.
There is no such thing as bad PR…..anyway while most insjuries are not fake the motivations for RTW from a WC accident vs an accident on personal time is the problem…aka milking the system, its just human.
The term “inside baseball” comes to mind. There’s a whole lotta detail that is going to have to be broken down for people who are not in the field to understand. What percent of the TV watching population knows the difference between a 1.0 and a 1.5 mod? Or how it’s calculated? I’m not sure how much humor can be found in a premium audit–not much, would be my guess.
Might as well have Stephen Hawking write a sitcom so all the mathmeticians can have a laugh.
I do think, however, that this firm could be of some dramatic use as a source of sub-plots, and the family could be the focus of the show–kind of like Arrested Development with the Bluth property development company. That show was freakin hilarious!
I laughed one time and milk came out through my nose. I wonder if they would write a script around that? Heck–if they keep giving Charlie Sheen air time, my idea is sure to be a hit!!
What about a script for a national health plan established by a community organizer who has never had a main street American occupantion (& gladly took in 37,000 in foreign donations to promote himself & the plan) to establish a utopic, new era government that is going to run it & pay for it?
Just think; There could be fun episodes where people are dying while still standing in line for services, & (just like at the Post Office), 5:00pm arives and they close the counter?
Or we can see another hilarious episode where the 23 year old, out of work, drug abuser & alcoholic & gets a new liver transplant and we see the grovelling 68 year old accomplished man in otherwise good health get declined due to his age.
Think of the advertisements sold for products & so forth that the producers of this sitcom could pull in!
Any other episodes you can think of?
how can they make comedy of fraud, destitute families, torture, medical atrocities, murder, and the governmental corruption that allows insurance carriers to commit every crime in the book and never get their hands slapped. They are still busy paying propaganda to slander the sick and disabled, they have the money to buy air time adds, lawmakers and lawyers, meanwile when they fund the fraud investigation unit only the workers are persecuted. There are no fake injuries found in serious studies, one out of 2000 or so, but its rarely convictable crime..carriers and employer fraud is thousand of times worse… but ” if you tell the lie often enough the people will come to believe it” joseff Goerbels..( Hitlers minister of propaganda) Ive never seen an adjuster go to jail for killing or crippling for company profit. (and maybe a bonus). iris
think you might be holding on too tight.
I always enjoy someone getting the Nazi references in. Nothing gives you credibility like bringing up Hitler.
Lighten up, people! It’s just a TV show. I’m sure this will be just as good or bad as anything else out there.
nothing to lighten up about if you had witnessed the aftermath of carrier fraud… Thats why there have been several investigations, several books on the market, and tens of thousands who will never get well and go back to work.
This is no comedy- reality show and hothing funny about it
I am glad to see that someone has taken an interest in Wotker’s Compensation. I hope that at some point in this series, real awareness can be brought forth about the way some insurance adjusters are allowed to treat injured worker’s without any real monitoring from the state. My reason for saying this is, I am an injured work and my only goal was to get the broken bones in my wrist fixed and go back to work. A little over eight months later I still have several broken bones in the wrist, (one that was just detected two weeks ago), and I am still going back and forth with worker’s comp. I know that there are probably people out there who try to beat the system, however when there is a clear injury, it should be taken care of. This injury has just caused me to become homeless. Yes, homeless. A veteran of the U.S. Navy and a mother of two children that I have raised as a single mother all of their lives. Although I know that the series is meant to be lighthearted, maybe someone will pay attention. Some citizens love their jobs!!!!!
I certainly hope they show at least a small part of the fraud that is committed by “injured workers” which is about 30% of the claims filed against insurance companies. I love the surveillance videos of the people who claim they are permanently disabled from a work injury and then get filmed mowing the lawn, riding motorcycles, playing tug of war at a family party, or filling their prescriptions from numerous doctors and then selling them on the street. But I doubt that this show will reveal what really goes on in WC.
lots of false propaganda out there. The disabled dont have lobby money or air time. check out a few books ” all american holocaust”… or “depraved indifference”, or “disposeable people”, or “dont get hurt at work in america” or “a job to die for” for starters. llearn the different between truth and propaganda.dj
So much of our population is being deceived & influenced by the rich and powerful who use the media for their own brand of propaganda. National statistics prove that 1% of WC claimants commit fraud. Mysteriously unchecked is the other 99% of a system thought to be fraudridden. WC Insurers have been showing that same old fabricated video of an injured worker hopping a fence for yrs. But creating a wacky,kookie Sitcom of a corrupt system is the perfect cover up.
PDLJNK I hope you get your statistics right. The research by oregon, calif, n.y. nycosh, pirg, and various journalists and foundations have it broken down , and find that carrier and employer fraud is a much greater problem… after all adjusters have unconstitutional blanket immunity. Ronny Reagan believed that line so he cut off all social security disability cases pending hearings… 23000 died waiting for the hearings (one showed up in an iron lung). The states labor department could only find i/2 to 1/3rd of one percent of claims that were questionable…But the industry keeps up the propaganda laughing all the way to the offshore banks. as the dead bodies pile up all over the country. They own the hospitals and clinics and can make evidence disappear so easily.. especially if the claimsnt cant get copies.
sites?
Worker deaths in the U.S. from toxic exposures, other work illnesses are conservatively estimated by NIOSH and other researchers at 50,000 to 60,000 lives lost each year. Another over 5,000 fatalities occur each year in the U.S. from work injuries. It is a disaster of monumental proportions.
While the United States has set permissible exposure limits on less than 500 of the hundreds of thousands of chemicals in use in workplaces, the EU regulates 30,000 chemicals utilized in their workplaces, and many that we allow here have been banned for years in the EU.
Worker deaths often cost a corporation far less than correcting a safety/health hazard in the workplace; and the employer is virtually immune from prosecution for the depraved indifference that results in severe injury, toxic exposure, or death.
It is a major and costly health issue – costly in lives, and costly in dollars.
And you think all this is an appropriate subject for a television comedy?!
Worker deaths at an all time low in Oregon. Every year they have been dropping for the last 20 years. Where do you live?
This made be better suited for a web-based show. American Family has one called “In Gayle we Trust”–follows an agent going about her day.
Can’t see this show lasting more than a couple of episodes at best.
was R Macgavins letter blocked out because it was getting lots of responses? more than the others… or maybe he is onto the truth.
druther get help from medicare than from organized crime… as my carrier was.
My comment must have really struck a nerve. It has been getting many comments despite what they say and I guess the Insurance Journal folks want to suppress the truth.
Insurance Journal removed my comment because it struck too close to home. I have received tons of responses to it. Don’t let them fool you.
I am not the only one willfully and deliberately crippled for life by carrier crime.. I know several others. If I sound bitter… yeh let me smash your spine and make radiology films dissapear and forge and alter documents for you cant ge treated. (your doc can be paid to lie)if the carrier own the clinic. See how long you can stand the agony. worst of it is no one went to jail.
I think this show could be really funny. Here’s my two cents on the matter. http://insurelargotoday.com/2011/04/20/workers-comp-tv-show/
Diane,
I am fairly new to this site, but I knew that you sounded like someone who knows first hand how wc operates. unfortunately, I am only nine months in and just getting started. It is amazing to me how wc”s actions can even be legal!!! I must say that I am shocked to learn that I am not alone. I have heard so many horror stories in these last few months. Good luck to you.
good luck lisa… there are three pieces of paper you need to start a claim injury report signed by boss or supervisor, 2, initial doctor report( hope the carrier does not own the clinic) and 3, your application with dept of comp. keep copies so they cant “lose it”. Keep copies of every medical and legal paper even mailing envelopes, and films, or other test results so they cant be tampered with…check out injured worker .org Oregon or Injured workers alliance.. lots of groups out there now… growing in every state. contact me in peron for guidance… my book is also avilable used… and soon on line.. its called workers compensation….all american holocaust. the newest is by dr.Patrice Woeppel called depraved indifference.. another “dont get hurt at work in america” I could go on. perpre to live with zero income and zero medical treatment for a long time. good luck!
Thank you so much Diane. I feel so blessed to have stumbled upon this site. I need every bit of helpful information I can get my hands on. I am living this nightmare right now. Just thrown out on the street last month with no place to go because I cannot take care of myself, nor can I pay my bills. It does not matter that I am a single mother, veteran of the U.S. Navy or a worker that worked 84 hours every week just to make ends meet. Good luck to you and anyone else in this horrible situation.
this site is run by the insurance industry… usually pro industry.. check out veterans for change.org as well they may help. work comp usually leaves claimants destitute and homeless thats the plan. Me if had to leave the us for treatments when contract was breeced by carrier. but there are many activists drawing attention to the usual fraud and corruption in this system in every state. ask larry at or
how to reach me.illegitimi non carborundum… dont let the bastards grind you down. dj
whoops Lisa, my letter got censored.. just look up the books ive named…. you find me
It is about time to inject some glamour into the Insurance Industry. I have been handling w/c claims for 25 years and just when I think I have seen it all another surprise lurks around the corner. My co-workers & I cannot wait for this show!
Finally – Fame and recognition after working at this gig for 25 years!
who wants to be famous for depriving sick and injured of medical help? sick! Every adjuster should look and count the dead bodies in the archives after a few years..iris
I am shocked that an adjuster or anyone would be excited about any show that makes light of the work these insurance companies are doing. Everyone may not agree, and I know that it is just a show, but if you haven’t lived this nightmare, I wouldn’t expect you to understand. It just goes to show everyone how clueless they are, (the adjusters), when it comes to the pain and suffering of the injured. Diane, I know you were sensored. Did you say your info is in your book?
Yes, last time I did a radio talk show… (one of dozens) The organizers in my state were talking to the top team of investigative reporters who are regularly on n.p.r. they are called “project censored” and do a show every sunday called “for the record”. I have the honor of having been booted off the airwaves, and replaced by an old re-run. we stepped on political toes. pen name.. Iris B
Wow Diane I am not even shocked which is very sad. Nothing that they do surprises me.
I would really enjoy watching this show when it is released.
I was in the claim business for 30 years handling WC, Liab, Auto and Property. There are additional great stories in all of those areas that should also be looked at when the workers compensations stories are played out.
as for workers comp, and auto injuries.. as long as the insurance cartel is taking over hospitals and clinics and rehab facilities nationally, its easy to make it appear that the most badly injured have no problems…all they must do is make evidence dissappear from all files.. I have that documented in my book. The military figured out long ago that the quicker you patch ’em up the less chance of permanant pain and disability… the industry delays all patch up jobs, leaving them suffer and die destitute. sop iris
I am so tickled to see this! I am a senior workers’ compensation claims adjuster and have been doing this for 32 years. I have been saying for years they should make a comedy out of this profession because between the wierd claims we get, the people we deal with and our own lives it would be a never ending show. If you run out of material feel free to contact me for more!