Fraudulent Workers Compensation Claims:
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...being to fill an important need in society, as do most social programs designed to assist the masses. More specifically, workers compensation came into being to ensure that employees who were injured and/or disabled on the job were provided with monetary compensation, thus eliminating the need for litigation. The system was very effective in its early years and operated very closely to its original intent. However, as time passed and the system grew both in size and in terms of bureaucracy, worker’s compensation indeed continues to provide these benefits to many employees, but the system has become very corrupt as well resulting in widespread employee and doctor deception and ever-rising costs for business owners.
The problem of abuse within the workers compensation system is a very real and significant one. There exists within the content of worker’s compensation legal directives to protect employers from fraud and abuse, and in a perfect world these measures would work to ensure the integrity of the system Worker’s Compensation: An Overview. (2004). Legal Information...
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