Division Officials And Audit Allegations

There is a law firm in Great Falls and their specialty is in handling workmen's compensation

cases and a report from the legislature's Audit Committee on the state Workmen's Compensation Division was criticized by them. On a yearly basis, the state agency spends millions of dollars to pay workers for job related illness and injury and this is why there is a document serving to contend the audit which focused too much on the unfavorable aspects of their operations. The audit report contained allegations of abuses by division officials, lawyers and doctors in the handling of workmen's compensation cases.

It is the author of a pamphlet which was submitted to the legislature's Select Committee on Workmen's Compensation which is also part of this firm as a lawyer. According to him and another lawyer, the report should have concentrated more on finding ways to help working men and women. 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.

According to the lawyer, the audit was broad in scope and it was very 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. The audit investigation led to a full blown attorney general's investigation which has so far resulted in one conviction for theft and fraud and three other criminal charges filed. An alleged runner for a lawyer, two lawyers, and a legal secretary ended up being convicted of several charges in this case.

When it comes to the final analysis, it is strongly recommended by the lawyer that good people should not be burdened with this suspicion considering how dishonesty and abuses are the rule in this case. As much as possible, the lawyer also said that the burden that comes with 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 upon the good people. With regard to the document, it took issue with a particular segment of the audit which concerned the contended lawyers seeking doctors with noninterventionist attitudes to perform medical examinations on clients with workmen's compensation claims. Considering the innuendo that doctors who prepare medical evaluations are anything but honest, it lacked objectivity according to the lawyer. When it comes to the audit report, they did not include anything on obtaining medical reports from many orthopedists and members of the neurological fraternity. There was a reputable orthopedic surgeon who mentioned that no one is entitled to anything that he did not earn through hard work. This doctor annually treats many injured working people.

Disagreeing to an audit recommendation discouraging lump sum settlements in workmen's compensation cases was this particular document. Even if many abuses are opened up through the practice of allowing an injury claim to be paid in one large sum, there are many benefits to the single award according to two lawyers coming from the same firm. A seriously injured worker who has to settle for weekly payments of $100 or less for a long period will not be able to pay debts or enter into another business to make up for his disability according to the lawyers.

by: TrentBryant

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