Comments on: Lifting The Hood On Workers’ Comp

By: Exclusive - Sanford Settles With Workers’ Comp Commission | FITSNews For Now

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:47 +0000

[...] 23, 2008 – S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford has reached a settlement with members of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation commission over a series of executive orders issued last year which forced the commission to apply objective [...]

By: Know Your Rights - Undocumented Workers Entitled to Workers’ Compensation :: No Borders and Binaries

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:40:14 +0000

[...] Take this decision from South Carolina as an example, rendered just last December: In a decision that is sure to unleash political firestorms at both the state and national level, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled last week that illegal immigrants have the same right as any other worker to receive payments from the stateâ€™s workersâ€™ compensation system. [...]

By: Jim Corbett

Jim Corbett — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:14:01 +0000

We Republicans can not afford to make a claim and ask for help and then have people find out the facts used to support our stance are wrong. Will Folks, and Sanford Chief of Staff Tom Davis twice before, have publicly stated incorrect facts. South Carolina DOES use the AMA guidelines in worker’s comp cases, but the Commissioners can take a 10% impairment to the arm (”I can only raise my arm so high now”) and apply it to that worker’s job to find the disability rating – the actual effect of the injury on the perons’s ability to earn wages. Without this ability to judge the effect of the injury the Doctor, picked exclusively by the insurance carrier, is deciding the case based on a scale that does not consider the effects on the human being. Is that “Pro-Life, Whole Life?” The Doctor, picked and paid by the insurance company, is then Judge and Jury. With what training? As for the “exorbitant awards” the Governor picks the Commisisoners and there are lots of appeals available. Remember checks and balances? Any payments are based on 2/3’s a workers average weekly wage to “encourage” them to return to work as soon as possible. As for attorneys fees, the maximum is 33%, no higher, and no one ever asks how much insurance companies make, should make, or how many lake houses the top level executives buy for family members. They build big buildings in Illinois wiith our money and never give rebates in a good year, even when the company does a damn good job and has no accidents. How about supporting small business and asking big business a few questions about how much money they make versus how much they think they are entitled to make? As Republicans, we believe people should earn it, not have it handed to them with government protection. By going to our roots we can reform a system that every so often needs adjustement and exists to ensure businesses don’t get sued by employees to remove potential conflicts between employer and employee. If you want unions in S.C. , just keep on this path but it will be your fault not ours because we long time Republicans use correct facts to support our positions.

By: Jim Corbett

Jim Corbett — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:51:38 +0000

We Republicans can not afford to make a claim and ask for help and then have people find out the facts e use to support our stance are wrong. Will Folks, and Sanford Chief of Staff Will Folkes twice before, have publicly stated incorrect facts. South Carolina DOES use the AMA guidelines in worker’s comp cases, but the Commissioners can take a 10% impairment to the arm (”I can only raise my arm so high now”) and apply it to that worker’s job to find the disability raiting. Without this ability to make a judgement of the effect of the injury the Doctor picked exclusively by the insuracne carrier is deciding the case based on a scale that does not consider the effect on the human being.