Workers Comp Help
Strugging To Get Comp Benefits
Well it has been 3 yrs. since the nightmare of workmens comp started for me. I really don't know where to start. I worked for my former employer for 16 years. I had started to work for them when I was 15 years old. I partially grew up there (not that I didn't have a loving family at home, I was just at work alot). I had come not only to think of my job as a job. I loved my employers and co-workers as if they were my family.
That's one of the things that's so bad. You trust and believe people but you get a big slap in the face. I was a hard worker for these people. The proof is in what's wrong with my body.
When it all came down to it I was nothing more than a liability and a problem. It made no difference how much money I had made for them. Now the thing was how much money was I going to cost them and make their rates go up on workers comp. insurance. I was told this. They tried to make me quit but I'm not that kind of person. I'm not a quitter.
I'm going to do what I can within the law. I think some laws definitely need to be changed. I think we need some men or women in our legislature who are regular people, that have worked for long periods of time, in physically laboring type jobs. How can people, who know nothing about what it's "really like" out there make laws that actually prevent us from getting what we should have. Where are the laws that protect the employee? I'm sure someone would say "there are laws that protect the employee". I have seen what it's like out there.
The lawyers have told me that Louisiana has one of the worst workers comp deals in the U.S.A. I believe it. On another note , lawyers don't want to do their jobs either. All they care about is how much money they are going to get. I have reason to believe that I was sold out by my attorney. People say," turn him in to the attorney discipline board." Well I've been there and done that. I personally think it's all one big sham.