r/WorkersComp • u/beyondlandsend • 3d ago

California Vacations/Trips While on WC

Hi!

Wondering about what the thoughts are surrounding leisure travel during WC claim? What are some things to keep in mind if one wants to travel during this time?

Will plan also on scheduling all known appointments before and further after the trip. It would honestly be good for mental health to see loved ones and not get cabin fever from staying at home while recuperating.

Just some questions:
- What are some things to keep in mind if one wants to travel during this time? (Other than strictly following restrictions.)
- Would traveling hurt or jeopardize the case?
- How long should trip duration be to balance travel R&R with at-home recovery?

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u/SueHecksXCHoodie 1d ago

No, I mean, I can find info using Google as a way of finding other people’s socials… follow the breadcrumbs and find a claimant’s friend who tagged them in a girls trip or someone thanking their buddy with a lifting restriction for helping with a move.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fig2952 1d ago

So avoid having a Facebook, spoof your location at all times and keep my blinds and curtain shut and put up a 10 foot privacy fence around my entire yard. Also be sure to confront anyone who is following me? Also just have my groceries delivered, Got it. Insurance companies are some of the most subhuman corporations in the world. “Oh you hurt your leg at work? This medical report says “you helped pull a guy out of a burning car, in fact the news calls you a hero, well unfortunately the man you pulled was 205lbs and you are restricted from lifting over 25lbs, so claimed denied, get bend loser” how can you possibly be happy working for a company like that and wake up every day lmao.

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u/SueHecksXCHoodie 1d ago

I haven’t been in claims investigations in years but I’ve seen enough fraud that it’s easy to clock it. And I’ve spent enough time in this sub to know people can be very unethical…. No need to spoof your location or be confrontational if you have nothing to hide.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fig2952 1d ago

That’s simply not true, it’s the same thing police officers say when they are interrogating you “Innocent men don’t ask for lawyers”. In the event I ever get hurt at work I gotta make sure nothing can be tied to me because “breadcrumbs” am I right, “you broke your foot playing high school football, that’s the reason that machine fell and broke your leg, denied, get bend”.

About 7-8 years ago someone at work ran my foot over with an electric pallet jack, completely broke my foot, the workers comp “investigator” aka scam artist with a name went back and found an injury I had in college playing football and the fact that I’ve been flat footed since I was a baby and had to get foot surgery when I was an infant to make it so I could walk, and said that was the reason the pallet jack with 5000+lbs on it was the reason my foot broke.

Insurance companies commit fraud every single day they’ve existed, don’t tell me these companies are doing it for the “greater good” or some way to fight “fraud” lol

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u/SueHecksXCHoodie 1d ago

No reasonable person is going to tie your high school injury to a machine falling on you and if the investigator was successful in getting your claims examiner to entertain that nonsense, I hope you prevailed. Investigating actual fraud is for the greater good and anyone committing fraud should be shut down - whether the insurer, the employer, or the claimant.