WORKERS' COMPENSATION: BAD FAITH & BREACH OF CONTRACT

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BREACH OF CONTRACT AND BAD FAITH:
This petition is to gather the support of the victims and their families to expose the horror stories they have been forced to endure at the mercy of Workman's Compensation.Upon signing this petition, I am asking that the Government changes the laws, prosecute illegal action taken by insurance companies and their employees and give victims and families the change to file class action law suits against the Insurance Companies that harm them. The "legal" way Workman's Compensation forces their victims into submission by with-holding funds, denying necessary medical care, and destroying lives is not only against the law but they also practice BREACH OF CONTRACT and BAD FAITH ACT. The contract that these insurance companies have with our employers and therefore with the employees doesn't protect the injured worker if the Insurance companies can brake laws and keep getting away with it.
My request: Change the laws more in favor of the Injured Workers', prosecute the ones that don't apply with the laws, and allow injured workers to file class action suit against Workers' Compensation Insurance companies for Breach of contract and Bad Faith.

Thank you very much for your support.
Yours truly,

419 Signatures

  • Sabrina Lane
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1.5
    • Comments
    • Injured since March 2001, denied medical care for 12 month, denied benefit for 10 month,
  • Erin S. Buckhalter
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1.5
  • Tonia L. Merlo
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • OPEN
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1.5
    • Comments
    • injuried jan 2nd 2001, denied medical surgery on knee for 10 months,denied medical on other knee and back til 4/5/2002 , in pt, wish someone could live a day.. like i do
  • rosellen burke
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • over three years
    • Comments
    • The adds that state the workers comp just want's to put injured workers back to work should be taken litterly. They DO want to put us back to work while we are still injured. They delay and deny in the hopes that the injured worker will give up and just accept their resultant limitations and pain as just one of lifes jokes. This is obsured, and obscene. Workers comp would save much more money if they would immediatly give the proper and utmost care immediatly after the on the job injury. The delay tactics cause irreparable damage and ongoing injury to an already injured worker. This is NOT what workers comp was set up to do. If there any in a position of authority to change the way things are handled, and they have even a tiny ammount of integrity, they will throw themselves behind the injured worker and do the right thing. Get us the proper care, in a timely manor. Thats all we ask. Thanke you for your time.
  • TINA ROACH
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • NA
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • NA
  • Ned G. Harmon
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Closed in 1 week
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4 years
    • Comments
    • I lost everything, SS pending, bills due...W/C in the US is a joke...you don`t need to be told...
  • D OLIVER
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • OPENED
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • ONE YEAR
  • Cindy Strouse
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 11
  • Margo Booth
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4
    • Comments
    • I was refused surgery for one year, and have a scoliosis due to the longterm gait adjustment (I had a knee injury), and became depressed due to the harassment by employer and insurance copany (diagnosed/treated by psychiatrist), and they have, to date, refused to pay for any of those bills. They also haven't paid some of the bills for items they authorized. Was lied to numerous times - including about what my surgeon originally said. No travel expenses were ever paid - in fact, it was 2 years after the injury before I knew I was eligible for reimbursement - and I discovered it myself.
  • Christine L. Tacey
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed but in process for a court date
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 18 months
    • Comments
    • Stopped paying me after 14 months, decided from ime that it was not work related yet happened at work.
  • SUZANNE AMES
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • OPEN
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 2 YRS
  • B.W.
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3
  • Fred Johnson
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Good Question, Closed?
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 2000
    • Comments
    • Maybe my lawyer is still pursuing the case? Maybe the insurance company thinks, they will be reimbursed?
  • Abran C. Burgos
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1-2
    • Comments
    • You feel like a criminal and the more honest you are the more they can use that against you. I have proof that my employer was breaking the law however if that were true it would mean having to compensate me for damages.This is not justice this is profit or profit.
  • Terrence Warren Moore
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3 years - Injured 3/5/99
  • Kimarie Passalaqua
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 6 mo
  • margaret mullins
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • va
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 2 i had to settle because i was broke
    • Comments
    • i was treated badly and discriminated against
  • Charlotte Stubbs
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 7
    • Comments
    • The system needs to be changed. Huge amounts of monies are wasted trying to deny claims. Stats show that less then 1% if wc fraud is from the injured worker. why then are we singled out for such treatment. How many dollars have been lost due to us becoming disabled because of the very system you traded our rights for? I'd rather take my chances with a jury personally.
  • Gene Stubbs
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • wifes case is Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • wifes case is 7 years old
    • Comments
    • My wife has went from a productive worker who enjoyed her job to a cripple who is depressed and angry. the wc system has put stress and strain on both of us. I thought the system was supposed to take care of the injured worker not make their injury worse. I'm very disappointed in our represenatives for not doing more to help the injured worker.
  • Cheryl Segura
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3
    • Comments
    • was going good till they switched my worker, now nothing but trouble
  • Yoda
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3+
    • Comments
    • The need for state industrial commissions to follow up with their own rules and not letting WC ins co get away with what they seem to do best, destroy the injured worker and their families by cutting legitament benefits for months at a time without consequences from the overseeing industrial commissions.
  • rose kozloski
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 5yrs. of pain and still holding
    • Comments
    • need to get medical treatment a lot quicker from w/c .how can they do this to us when the terroist are able to get medical.
  • Bob Scholeck
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 6
    • Comments
    • It is imperative to have the W C laws changed. It is immoral with the current W C laws. Try to learn the incomes of Ins. Co. CEOs & Pres. If in a Union, encourage to have HUGE PENSION FUND monies removed from stock portfolios of W C Ins. Co. We need decent W C laws.
  • Anita Richardson
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • DENIED BY WC
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1 YR
  • Michael Houston
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 7 months
  • John C. Scolastico Sr
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4 years
    • Comments
    • The time is now to fight back
  • William P. Spero
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 10 years
    • Comments
    • Injured workers are not criminals. You only find out how bad it is when you become one of us.
  • Barbara Mazzanti
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 2 1/2 years
    • Comments
    • I was treated horribly by Workmens Comp. and hope to God I never have to have anything to do with them.
  • Terrence Ervine
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1978
    • Comments
    • never give up
  • judy jacobs
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1 ,1/2
    • Comments
    • change laws that hurt!
  • E. Afflitto
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4 years and counting
  • Anna Maria Hart
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 10 years; ongoing
    • Comments
    • Due to insurance company's tactics and withholding of timely approvals I became worse and have had to endure additional loss to upper limbs.
  • Doreen D.
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4 years
  • Robert Quartero
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • three+
    • Comments
    • I've suffered great injustices at the hands of the insurance company and a faulty system.
  • Daniel Harraden
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • illegally started/ended
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1989 to 1996
    • Comments
    • Nothing ethical or legal from start to present date.
  • ANITRA FULLER
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • CLOSED
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4
  • Anthony Soldano
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 9 Months
    • Comments
    • We have no rights.
  • Margaret M. Snow
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3 years
    • Comments
    • The laws must be changed to gain our rights as injured PEOPLE, not injured Employees. Why should there be a difference? It appears as if the Insurance Companies don't trust the Doctors, that's why they have a "Panel of Physicians" for us to pick from. Why wouldn't any Doctor be ok to go to? It is obvious they have us over a barrel. Things must change for injured peole to regain the use of injured body parts & to be able to go back to work. the "windfall" everyone talks about just isn't there!
  • Michael A. Kerstetter
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 9 years
    • Comments
    • An Injury to One is an Injury to All
  • Michael T. McKenna
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3
    • Comments
    • had arm reattached, am Vp of the Lehigh Valley Chapter and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Federation of Injured Workers
  • Daniel Harraden
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • illegally started and closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • From 3/14/89 to date
    • Comments
    • No rights,no benefits,and no medical from 89 to date. Denied legal claim for WC from 91 to date.
  • Colleen M. Stewart
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 3 months
  • Lisabeth Clark
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 1
  • Vicky Tidwell
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 2
  • della johnson
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • n/a
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • n/a
  • charlotte patterson
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4
    • Comments
    • closed despite judges rulings.
  • Pedro Rodriguez
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 6
    • Comments
    • An unbelieveable horror story that put myself and my family through tremendous suffering. The case may be closed, but it is far from over for me...still trying to get my life back.
  • Robert V. Harmony
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • Open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • almost 5
    • Comments
    • Blow the whistle on corruption and fraud.
  • Duane Fike
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • open
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 4
  • Lisa Formo
    • Do you had or have legal representation?
    • No
    • Case Status: Open or Closed
    • closed on wage open on medical
    • How long (years) is or was your case ongoing?
    • 10 years
    • Comments
    • still fighting with insurance companys