When they’re not praying for hurricanes, some insurance companies are apparently living in mortal fear of additional paperwork. The insurance lobby in the IOU state scored a major victory when they talked down state lawmakers from proceeding with legislation designed to combat insurance fraud in workers’ comp cases. While the idea of sending out notices to injured workers to verify that they actually received the services billed may have looked good on paper to some, the massive impediment from the postage involved was too much for insurance companies to take.
Sending out notices is “prohibitively expensive” and would confuse injured workers, said Steven Suchil, an attorney with the American Insurance Assn.
It would be a real shame if insurance companies took the risk that injured workers might understand whether or not they had their arm reattached and lose some of their ability to cite fraud as a primary reason for raising rates.
Crackdown on workers’ comp billing fraud is dealt a setback [LA Times]
First handbridge!
@1 damn … these slow handbridges can’t type that fast.
I must admit, i have never had the pleasure of executing a TF.
Maybe I will try on Friday.
Is it worth it?
@3 just walk me through your reasoning here. What could possibly be bad about a nice TF session?
@3
Only if their claws are trimmed.
-Dennis Kneale
Where is Equity Private! I want her to come back!
What does an EP handbridge look or feel like?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hand+bridge
@7 i’d rather jerk off with sandpaper.
@7 Posterity FTW!
8,
I’d rather chew on broken glass, fag.
@10
Go back to your cage.
@ EP
By far the hottest comment you have ever made on this site. For your next trick, stomp my walnuts with your high heels.
-Nominate me
@12 look at the name a little closer. that’s not EP.
Equity Pirate is a fucking genius. The real EP doesn’t have the wherewithal to come up with a comment like that.
Equity Pirate, you got me swinging.
@14, you are correct…and apparently I’m gay for pirates.
-Nominate me