by Jack Epstein | Sep 16, 2012 | News
Many insurance companies will telephone the injured worker immediately upon an accident being reported. The adjuster will say that the worker must give a recorded statement before he or she gets paid or receives medical treatment. This sounds innocent enough. However,...
by Jack Epstein | Sep 16, 2012 | News
In many cases, without the injured worker’s knowledge, insurance companies hire private investigators to follow the injured worker and conduct video surveillance over a period of several days. Often these private investigators will use vans and sit outside an...
by Jack Epstein | Sep 16, 2012 | Illinois Workers Compensation, News
The spy for the insurance company The word “nurse” does not appear in the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. Nonetheless, there is no person, other than a patient’s doctor, that can so dramatically affect treatment than the nurse case manger. The use of the...
by Jack Epstein | Aug 8, 2012 | medical malpractice, News
The principle test of insurance company doctors to say that an injured worker is faking his or her back pain Waddell’s signs are a group of physical signs, first described in a 1980 article in the medical journal, Spine, and named for the article’s...
