I had an employee work for me for about a year then he had an "incident" where he bumped his hand. After that he started complaining of hand pain. Turns out he had VERY advanced arthritis in both hands. A doctor recommended surgery.He worked one handed duty for a couple weeks, then just stopped coming and sued me.
Here are the claims:
Plaintiff alleges disabilities as set forth in this petition for the Hearing and especially conditions related to the employees heart, chest, lungs, back, extremities, arthritis, hernia, neurosis and other such ailments caused or aggravated by harmful employment conditions and industrial accidents attributable to his employment.
(I somewhat paraphrased)
Now remember that this guy worked for me in light duty industrial labor for LESS than one year!
He agreed to settle for $40k, my lawyers and Comp carrier say we got off really cheap
Great system.....no really. Anyone wanna bet he'll take another light industrial job soon and do it all over again?
Yep, worker's paradise all right. We really need to change this system that favors employers and steps on the little guys throat.. Power to the people yo!!!1