Company couldn't cut disabled worker's benefits, so it 'went rogue' and had him arrested, lawyer say

[TexasTowelie]

In 2003, after Mario Seguro-Suarez fell 18 feet head-first onto the concrete floor of his Lincolnton workplace, his employer and its insurance carrier acknowledged that his disabling brain injury qualified him for workers’ compensation benefits.

Court documents reveal the lengths that Key Risk Insurance Co. went not to pay them.

The Greensboro-based company disregarded years of medical opinions — including several from its own doctors — that Seguro-Suarez was indeed left disabled from his fall at the Southern Fiber factory, documents show.

Over the past 15 years, Key Risk has made multiple trips to courts and before the N.C. Industrial Commission to argue that Seguro-Suarez has been faking his symptoms and that his benefits should be cut off.

Read more: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article217808590.html

If anyone from Key Risk Insurance Company is reading this, pay your claims!

[rampartc]

1. they would shoot us like they dhoot horses if they could

[mr_lebowski]

2. Worker's Comp Insurance Carriers are the Worst of the Worst ... they're scum ...

And this is true, almost universally.

Take the worst, most bullshit 'insurance company issue' you've ever had in your life ... and multiply it by 10 ... and you're MAYBE in the realm of dealing with the AVERAGE 'workers comp insurance company bullshit'.

And the 'Courts', which really are their own little fiefdoms, are RIFE with friggin' collusion between the Corporations, the Lawyers, and the Judges.

The whole system is totally corrupt ...

[WePurrsevere]

3. Very true! The crap my DH went through dealing with them, pfft!

Workman's Comp is a disgusting joke and in dire need of a total rehaul WITHOUT these insurance companies in total control of what's put in it!

[Omaha Steve]

4. Been there, done that

[3Hotdogs]

5. I've had some experience in W.C. court.

You get hurt.

You get a settlement offer from the insurance company.

I suggest you don't accept the first offer. Tell your lawyer, "Tell them, they have to do better."

Your lawyer will ask, or tell you that the company asked, "How much is better?"

Repeat: "Just tell them, they'll have to do better."

They almost always do. This is not lawyer advice but experience from watching court cases which is one of my hobbies.



This is also a strategy for selling real estate. Never accept the first offer.

[lostnfound]

6. Add sexism and probably racism to their crimes

Would insurance company have expected that a 17 year old SON become his unpaid caretaker? I doubt it.