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The Smith & Amar State Supreme Court Decisions have been handed down. They affect the way that injured workers's attorneys are compensated specifically for some of the work that they do for their clients!
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Bad Faith, The Documentary is a scathing look at long-term disability insurance companies who routinely deny benefits to those who faithfully pay their policy premiums. Workers' Compensation - Long Term Disability, what's the difference? The end result is the same... Deny.. Deny! And who's protecting us against this fraud?
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It was Walmart's greed and disregard, for it's own workers' safety that apparently caused the preventable death of temporary employee Jdimytai Damour on the day after Thanksgiving 2008. Thurman Martin Jr, interviews Eric Dinnocenzo, a New York City attorney by phone and they discuss the legal aspects of this tragic case.
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The story of Taneka Talley, an employee of Dollar Tree stores who was savagely murdered while working at her employer's premises. Thurman Martin has a candid conversation with Moira Stagliano, the family's attorney. The WC insurer initially refused to cover her death stating that her murder was a race crime and was not covered.
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The Almaraz-Guzman WCAB En Banc Decisions The Workers' Compensation court has spoken and said that it is OK to rebut the ACOEM guidelines. The insurance industry and their allies are crying "FOUL!" Thurman Martin brings us up-to-date with his 2009, 1st quarter Workers' Comp update.
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The first in a line of Video Short Subjects. The Federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act) & the injured worker. Is this a viable solution to finally get justice in this state benefits system where everyone responsible for upholding the law simply looks the other way when it's time to step up to the plate?
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Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr. & Producer Sam Gold discuss a very sensitive subject; that of the rights of undocumented workers. How they are being treated around the country and precisely what their legal rights are when they become injured in the course of their employment!
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Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr. talks to California Highway Patrolman Bill Parkin, who was injured in the line of duty working as a California Highway Patrolman in the San Francisco and Sacramento areas. He's had to fight for his constitutionally mandated benefits!
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Producer Sam Gold & Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr. conduct an over-the-phone interview of Leonard T. Jernigan Jr., chairman of the national Workplace Injury Law & Advocacy Group's Fraud Task Force about their efforts to stop Employer & Insurer fraud.
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San Francisco Bay Area Workers Compensation Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr. of the law firm of Michael Dias gives you an update as to the state of Workers Compensation in California. This is the January 2008 update.
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San Francisco Bay Area Workers Compensation Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr. of the law firm of Michael Dias gives you an update as to the state of Workers Compensation in California. This is the November 2007 update, which can also be found at www.YouTube.com.
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Injured On The Job host Sam Gold answers an E-Mail from a viewer about his own occupational injury (chronic tinnitus and psyche) and the viewer gets a little more than he asked for. Keeping true to form in his straight-from-the-hip style, he tells it like it is. It's no holds barred. Is it a disclaimer? Who knows! Watch and find out.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes Workers Compensation bills for a second time in his tenure as California governor. Bay Area Workers Compensation Hearing Representative Thurman Martin Jr., comments on the state of Workers Comp in this special report. Just who gives Arnold his marching orders?
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When Workers In San Francisco's Sex Industry Get "Injured On The Job?" Sex worker advocate Daisy Anarchy guests with Steve Zeltzer and exposes the draconian conditions that exotic dancers and workers in San Francisco's sex trade have to deal with. Which San Francisco politicians are running interference for the club owners?
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What is the future of "Voters Injured At Work?" That's a very good question. Many of their members have been contacting us wanting to know why VIAW is taking their money and simply offering nothing in return. That is a question best taken up with VIAW, not us. Here's the information that we have so far.
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What if Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had broken his femur at work? What hoops would he have to jump, just to get reasonable basic medical care and treatment for for his leg injury? We did some basic research on the topic and you may find the results to be quite astounding and amazing!
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Workers Compensation Fraud; Stop The Hypocrisy!
David J. DePaolo is the president and CEO of WorkCompCentral.com, a web based subscription newsite that deals with everything Workers' Compensation in California. David is also an attorney, and has been a member of the California Bar since 1985. Sam reads his oped piece.
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Think You Can't Sue Your Employer? Think Again! Injured worker Barbara Clark goes one-on-one with Injured On The Job host Steve Zeltzer and security expert David Sweigert and tells the story of her fight with Adventist Health Systems and why she filed her lawsuits against them and DIR director John Rea.
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Injured On The Job host and CIAW director Sam Gold, & Injured On The Job host and labor activist Steve Zeltzer, were guests on the John Rothmann show on KGO Newstalk Radio 810AM during the 1AM to 2AM hour on Sunday morning April 2, 2006. Injured workers from all over California called in! You can count on a return visit!
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Injured On The Job host and CIAW director Sam Gold, Injured On The Job host and labor activist Steve Zeltzer and injured worker Anita Blick were guests on the John Rothmann show on KGO Newstalk Radio 810AM during the 1AM to 2AM hour on Sunday morning September 10, 2006. Injured workers from all over California called in! You can count on a return visit!
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Injured On The Job producer and host Sam Gold, and host Steve Zeltzer, along with injured worker and former Atherton police dispatcher Anita Blick, guest on the John Rothmann show on KGO radio on Sunday, September 10, 2006. Phone calls from the listening audience were not heard on the studio monitors.
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Injured Worker Barbara Clark, appeared at the Federal Courthouse at a hearing to determine when a Guardian Ad Lightem needed to be appointed, as the defendants in her civil case were trying to discredit her. The judge wasn't particularly impressed by this defense ploy and found against the defendants. So who really are the crazy ones?
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Identity theft victim Eric Drew, the first person to force a successful prosecution & conviction under the federal HIPAA statute joins host Steve Zeltzer, HIPAA expert David Sweigert and injured worker Barbara Clark in a roundtable discussion of how this law that supposedly protects your personal & medical information, doesn't.
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Injured On The Job host Sam Gold has Sherman Oaks attorney Bruce Traney as his studio guest, with Bruce's law partner Nick Kazandjieff on the phone, both of The Law Firm Of Kazandjieff & Traney, LLP - Sherman Oaks, CA, discussing their class action lawsuit brought on behalf of California's injured workers.
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Injured On The Job producer and host, Sam Gold sat down and had an exclusive telephone interview with injured worker Barbara Clark who last week filed a $40 million lawsuit against her former employer's benefits administrator, their attorney and John Rea, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations.
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Injured On The Job host Steve Zeltzer sits down and does a telephone interview with San Francisco attorney and "Insult To Injury" author Ray Bourhis whose firm Bourhis & Wolfson has filed a class action lawsuit against insurance industry bad boys Unum Provident. You will be very interested in what Ray has to say!
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Injured On The Job hosts Steve Zeltzer & Sam Gold sit down with Bay Area orthopedic physician and surgeon Dr. Vatche Cabayan and discuss how next to impossible it is for doctors to effectively treat their patients while the insurance carriers systematically delay and deny constitutionally guaranteed benefits.
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Injured On The Job host Steve Zeltzer & guest Dina Padilla sit down with Dr. Chuck Phillips, the Kaiserologist and find out the real truth about the Kaiser Permanente Medical Plan; for profit or non-profit?
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Some Kaiser victims tell their horror stories while picketing the Morse Avenue Kaiser facility in Sacramento, CA. One of them is a real heartbreaker. Listen closely and carefully, because it can happen to you as it happened to others.
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When is there too much of a good thing? Obviously Zurich American Insurance and their attorneys are upset about the success of Injured On The Job and the truth that it tells and are trying to shut it down by filing a fraudulent and false petition to terminate producer Sam Gold's TTD benefits.
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When will it stop? is a question that many California injured workers keep asking. It won't stop until there is some real reform in the Workers Compensation system, not the Bullshit that our governor and his buddies are trying to pass off as reform. Learn how the lives of Californians are being destroyed by his greed.
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Why was Injured On The Job created? and why do we create the video here for you to view. No else else in this state seems to have the guts to tell it like it really is. Our goal is to bring you the truth about what's really happening and cut through all the bullcrap and get down to the nitty gritty of things.
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On February 4th of 2005, members gathered to watch the premiere of the "Almost Broken" documentary about the struggles of a Southern California worker against the behemoth State owned State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). A dozen or so injured workers walked up to their headquarters building to voice their opinions.
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On November 25th of 2003, California Injured Workers Coalition members Sam Gold, Jerry Rodriquez and Hart Postlethwaite testified before Senator Richard Alarcon's Labor and Industrial Relations Committee to relate some of the atrocities that injured workers are experiencing.
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On February 11th of 2004, California Injured Workers Coalition members Dina Padilla and Scott Hayes testified before Senator Richard Alarcon's Labor and Industrial Relations Committee to relate some of the atrocities that injured workers are experiencing.
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On February 25th of 2004, California Injured Workers Coalition members Sam Gold & Scott Hayes testified before Senator Richard Alarcon's Labor and Industrial Relations Committee to relate some of the atrocities that injured workers are experiencing.
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