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<blockquote data-quote="k946" data-source="post: 1053167" data-attributes="member: 44129"><p>Barnyard, you got extremely lucky. In my case the company Dr. said I need a surgeon, my surgeon said I need surgery. So I had surgery, unfortunately that didn't fix it, so I had a second surgery(replacement). LM's IME Dr.(3rd DR. involved) said it wasn't related to the work injury, so the court battle ensued. If an injured person reading site takes anything from all these posts it should be (A) know your state law on workmans comp. (B) once you get seriously injured for UPS you have become useless to them and will be treated as such. (C) The union rules or contract and the company rules will not supersede the state laws. This statement also goes out to the ones that think w/c people get rich from this. If you think this, you need to educate yourself. Being seriously hurt(not returning to work) will cost you your health care benefits (mine cancelled after 1 yr), because workmans comp pay is non taxable (nothing added to your SS benefits), in my state you are stuck at the wage you were making when you got hurt ( some states offer COL adjustments, but not all) I would really like one of these people to tell me how they get rich. The people who are not really hurt figure out how expensive it is on them and what they are loosing and hurry back to work. But for some of us, that just isn't an option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="k946, post: 1053167, member: 44129"] Barnyard, you got extremely lucky. In my case the company Dr. said I need a surgeon, my surgeon said I need surgery. So I had surgery, unfortunately that didn't fix it, so I had a second surgery(replacement). LM's IME Dr.(3rd DR. involved) said it wasn't related to the work injury, so the court battle ensued. If an injured person reading site takes anything from all these posts it should be (A) know your state law on workmans comp. (B) once you get seriously injured for UPS you have become useless to them and will be treated as such. (C) The union rules or contract and the company rules will not supersede the state laws. This statement also goes out to the ones that think w/c people get rich from this. If you think this, you need to educate yourself. Being seriously hurt(not returning to work) will cost you your health care benefits (mine cancelled after 1 yr), because workmans comp pay is non taxable (nothing added to your SS benefits), in my state you are stuck at the wage you were making when you got hurt ( some states offer COL adjustments, but not all) I would really like one of these people to tell me how they get rich. The people who are not really hurt figure out how expensive it is on them and what they are loosing and hurry back to work. But for some of us, that just isn't an option. [/QUOTE]
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