Okay so without going in to too much detail about this whole ordeal I have a question about being followed while being on workers comp. My mother who was hurt November of 2010 at work filed all nessesary paper work and continued to work as she kept getting misdiagnosed. After a couple month in pain she was finally diagnosed with a tear in her buy facebook fans shoulder muscle and a detached bicep tendon. After surgery in April of 2011 and weeks of therapy she was told she could go back to work in August. After three or so days of work she re-injured herself because she was truly not ready to go back (therapy and another doctor agreed). She has been going to therapy and as she comes TENS to find out the surgeon misdiagnosed her when she re-injured herself , as shown by reports and another doctor---who the comp people actually sent her too. --- So anyway with all those details....
She find out someone is following her, she went to court once and they told the judge what they had found, which was nothing really. They wanted to settle with her, but because she does not know what the state of her shoulder is in now and in the future her lawyer ( YES SHE HAS ONE) advised her to visit the doctor again next month on her appt date before the accept or go to court. Anyway today she went to her boyfriend realestate/tax office to help him answer some phones, which she does sometimes. She has been released by doctors to do 8hour sedentary work and answer phones, her previous employer however has not found a job for her. She is usually an LPN. A man who did not introduce himself walked in to the office and asked one of the men there question about her, he was rather wireless internet providers disheveled and actually made a pretty gross mess in the bathroom and the bathroom floor while there. After asking my mother and her boyfriend some strange questions he finally left. He then passed the office a couple more times and sat on a road watching the office. They tried to find him in the car but the windows were too tinted to see him there but after about 2 minutes the car wireless internet was gone.
Because my mother has a lawyer was it against the law to approach my mother and ask her questions, posing as someone who wanted to buy a house and have his taxes lowered.
sorry this is so long I just can't find much on the laws for PI's and crossbow comp laws.
She did contact her lawyer he seemed unconcerned, which worries me. Also she was afraid that it was some nut following her. Especially because of the mess he made in the bathroom and the intense interest he had in her.
Why shouldn't she be "working" she is not getting paid and she is able according to her doctor to sit for 8 hours and answer phone? So if she's cleared to do that why couldn't she wood stove do it there if she could do it at her normal place of employment if they would have found a position for her?
My dad used to moonlight as a work comp investigator. Yes they can follow you around and photograph you when you are out wine refrigerator in public. They can even talk to you.
If your mother is on work comp the insurance company is paying her to rest up or go to therapy. NOT to do volunteer work, regardless of whether she could do it at her job or not. She can sit on her front porch and talk on the phone all day. She cannot play receptionist in a business.
She could easily lose her WC benefits AND her job
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