Work comp insurance companies using COVID to deny benefits

Work comp insurance companies using COVID to deny benefits

Insurance companies are terrible institutions for injured workers.  The COVID pandemic is a prime example. My fellow lawyers and I have noticed a trend of workers’ compensation insurance providers who are taking completely unreasonable and unethical positions during the COVID crises.  They know that the court system has stopped or slowed so much that the workers’ lawyers can’t get court dates.  We can’t hit them with penalties through court orders.  We are gunfighters without bullets.  So, they are cutting off benefits with no good reason; they are starving out employees; they are denying medical treatment without an expert supporting their decisions.  In one case, they are refusing to pay for the surgery the insurance company doctor said was absolutely necessary.  One day this will end and courts will re-open.  When that happens guys like me are going to drag them into court and put our “foots” on their throats and never let them up until every single benefit is paid.  It’s going to be hell for them…and I cannot wait for it.