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Former UPS worker awarded $2.63 million
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<blockquote data-quote="upsdude" data-source="post: 402000" data-attributes="member: 2033"><p>Could someone post the link to that story. A guy in my center may have a similar case. </p><p></p><p>The procedure here is to send employees to the company doctor to certify they’re “fit for duty”. The company doctor has been making it difficult for many of those folks to return to work. Example, driver suffers a knee injury, the knee surgeon releases the driver back to work. During the time out of work driver’s dot card expired. Company doctor now refuses to issue a dot card because employee had a past knee injury. No, not because of a physical limitation, just because the driver had a past injury/surgery. </p><p></p><p>One of my coworkers suffered a back injury, the company doctor had the driver out for 2 months before ordering an xray. The company doctor suggested more than once that the driver should find another job. Employee finally had back surgery and the surgeon released the driver back to work. You guessed it, the company doctor kept the driver out another month and finally released the driver back to work. </p><p></p><p>From what I’ve seen it looks like this so called doctor is trying to weed out anyone with an injury or folks over 40. Fortunately state law demands an injured employee be given a choice of 3 doctors for treatment. Most of the folks here are now wise the “preferred” doc and seek treatment from one of the other 2 on the list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="upsdude, post: 402000, member: 2033"] Could someone post the link to that story. A guy in my center may have a similar case. The procedure here is to send employees to the company doctor to certify they’re “fit for duty”. The company doctor has been making it difficult for many of those folks to return to work. Example, driver suffers a knee injury, the knee surgeon releases the driver back to work. During the time out of work driver’s dot card expired. Company doctor now refuses to issue a dot card because employee had a past knee injury. No, not because of a physical limitation, just because the driver had a past injury/surgery. One of my coworkers suffered a back injury, the company doctor had the driver out for 2 months before ordering an xray. The company doctor suggested more than once that the driver should find another job. Employee finally had back surgery and the surgeon released the driver back to work. You guessed it, the company doctor kept the driver out another month and finally released the driver back to work. From what I’ve seen it looks like this so called doctor is trying to weed out anyone with an injury or folks over 40. Fortunately state law demands an injured employee be given a choice of 3 doctors for treatment. Most of the folks here are now wise the “preferred” doc and seek treatment from one of the other 2 on the list. [/QUOTE]
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