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: Workers Comp Insider

Disability Ratings with a Heart of Darkness

By Jon Coppelman

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Imagine that you are a doctor participating in a compensation review board for wounded veterans. You are responsible for signing off on pensions that have been recommended by a politically connected doctor. Frequently, the diagnosis is "polyarthritis" and the disability rating is 85%. At first, your review committee is fully staffed, but the pressure to endorse the blatantly bogus claims...

Full post as published by Workers Comp Insider on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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