Compensation For Workmen

A Great Falls law firm which specializes in workmen's compensation cases has criticized

a report of the legislature's Audit Committee on the state Workmen's Compensation Division.

The document contended that the audit devoted too much attention to unfavorable aspects of operation of the state agency that spends millions of dollars each year to pay workers for job related illness and injury. Containing allegations of abuses by division officials, lawyers, and doctors in the handling of workmen's compensation cases is this audit report.

In the firm, the author of a pamphlet which was submitted to the legislature's Select Committee on Workmen's Compensation also acts as one of their lawyers. As said by him and another lawyer, the report should have given more attention to helping working men and women instead.

Various phases of an intensive and expensive audit known as the Workmen's Compensation audit has been covered by the news media for several months as they search for any suggestion indicating whether or not the laboring people who will become disabled during the course of their employment will be its beneficiaries.

As the lawyer wrote, the audit is very broad in scope and it is unfortunate for it to have been founded on a base of rumors and suspicion concerning at least most of the lawyers who practice before the division.

With regard to this audit investigation, it literally became a full blown attorney general's investigation leading to one conviction for theft and fraud and three other criminal charges filed. Two of them were lawyers, there was an alleged runner for a lawyer, and there was a legal secretary, and these were the ones who were charged.

Recommending that good people should not be held back with this suspicion is the lawyer considering how dishonesty and abuses are the rule when it comes to the final analysis. What he said was that the burden that pertains to the rules and regulations designed almost entirely to prevent what apparently is assumed to have been the abuses of the past should not be placed on the good people.

Pertaining to the contended lawyers seeking doctors with moderate attitudes to perform medical examinations on clients with workmen's compensation claims, there was a segment of the audit that was criticized when it comes to the document.

What lacked objectivity according to the lawyer was the innuendo that doctors who prepare medical evaluations are anything but honest.

The audit report did not include anything on obtaining medical reports from many orthopedists and members of the neurological fraternity in any way. In this case, no one is entitled to anything that he did not earn with his efforts as mentioned by a reputable orthopedic surgeon. Annually, this doctor treats plenty of injured working people.

Such a document also objected an audit recommendation discouraging lump sum settlements in workmen's compensation cases. There are many abuses that are opened up through the practice of allowing an injury claim to be paid in one large sum as two lawyers coming from the same firm mentioned but there are plenty of benefits that come with a single award as well.

As the lawyers mentioned, it will be very difficult for a seriously injured worker who has to settle for weekly payments of $100 or less for a long period to pay debts or enter into another business to make up for his disability.

by: John Chambers

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