Dear Mr. Brokaw: Approximately a week and a half ago, you broadcast a report on fraud by an injured worker in California. I frankly do not know whether or not this worker in fact committed fraud. I have no sympathy for workers who defraud the Industrial Insurance system. What is astonishing to me is that your report focused on what is acknowledged by the vast majority of academic experts to be, by far, the source of the lowest amount of fraud in the Industrial Insurance system. In every study that has been done on fraud in Workers Compensation, employer, insurer, and provider fraud are found to be a dramatically greater problem than claimant fraud. At a time when injured workers throughout this nation are suffering enormously from deform of the system driven primarily by insurance providers, your report gave a seriously skewed presentation on the problems with the system. I do not believe you have a serious interest in what is happening to injured workers, but if by chance you do, I urge you to take a look at the recommendations that were made by the National Commission on Workers Compensation during the Nixon administration (an administration not particularly sympathetic to workers), then have your staff compare those recommendations to todays reality for injured workers. We should be ashamed of what we are doing to injured workers throughout this nation. I wish I did not feel cynical about sending you this e-mail. I am sorry that you have bitten the insurance industry bait, hook, line and sinker.10 -- Robert Stern, Special Assistant to the President, Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/workplace/etc/fraud.html
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:01:03 +0000
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