tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post8706029115421350535..comments2023-11-13T11:54:56.769-08:00Comments on DePaolo's World: Moral Turpitude Takes Big Money to CorrectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-12794757476472859372013-05-27T09:10:37.282-07:002013-05-27T09:10:37.282-07:00As an applicant's attorney with more than 27 y...As an applicant's attorney with more than 27 years representing injured workers, I can honestly state that my practice has gone from spending most of my time doing the necessary things to move my cases forward and obtain treatment and reasonable benefits due to my clients to spending more than 50% of my time trying to prod carriers and defense attorneys, send letters to AME's and QME's about medical treatment issues and deal with UR denials or, worse yet, the failure of carriers to send requests to UR time and time again. I even reported one adjuster to the Audit Unit after I could not resolve gross negligence with him or his supervisor and, unfortunately, you never know if they even read your documents.<br />Carrottop4uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13206428216061821275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-49231224649487927892013-05-07T07:24:26.436-07:002013-05-07T07:24:26.436-07:00The WCAB persists in fawning on the emperor's ...The WCAB persists in fawning on the emperor's new clothes. To call Sedgwick's actions deplorable and rare in the same statement caused be to wretch. SmarterCE.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08013979830607777164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489363879633129568.post-48330375071883593092013-05-06T11:35:00.844-07:002013-05-06T11:35:00.844-07:00A reader pointed out this contradiction in message...A reader pointed out this contradiction in messages being sent by the Sedgwick group:<br />http://www.adjustercom.com/modules.php?mop=modload&name=News&func=article_view&adj_article_id=1783<br /><br />"Dave North [president of Sedgwick] was easy going with everyone and talked about workers’ compensation. He unabashedly effused that the predictive modeling discussion is so tiring. 'You have to change the behavior,' he said, and that way the change in the behaviors will change the outcome.<br /><br />The question of course is whether this applies to Sedgwick's internal operations as well...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446191842560064784noreply@blogger.com