On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:45:51PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > those working had to work even harder. A vicious circle, much like the > one now facing American industry, where more and more workers are > claiming bogus "disability" and where the insurance costs are driving > companies out of the country.
One of my cousins is married to a private investigator who does work for insurance companies. Over the Christmas holiday I chatted with him for the first time in some detail about his work. Turns out that many people (he says) take paid disability leave from their company to work at a temporary under-the-table job or take legitimate disability leave and then decide they like not working so decide to make it permanent. He sits outside their houses in a van with tinted windows and takes video and photos of them driving to their temp job, cleaning gutters, going for a jog, and so on -- after they claimed they are no longer to walk. With that evidence in hand, the employer calls them up and tells them to be at work the next day -- or be fired. If I were the employer, I wouldn't even give them that second chance. -Declan