Conspiracy of Silence in Workers’ Comp Fraud
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Lies are done through silence as well as through words.
This was especially true for the 1980s and 1990s workers’ compensation field: Silence permitted the loss of billions of dollars through fraudulent profiteering schemes of physician-owners and their lawyer cohorts.
In her July 9 letter (“Trial Involving Workers’ Compensation Fraud Surpasses O.J. in Importance to California”), Karen Heller Mason notes that investigators sorted through records of those suspected in the largest workers’ compensation fraud mill over the last two years “too late for many of the state’s employers.”
Where were the officials of government, law and medicine in years previous, when silence prevailed, until industry threatened to, or did, leave the state?
Why is there still silence, with many physician-owners and lawyers involved in that fraud permitted to either carry on or to launder profits into other businesses, with no attempt by government to achieve compensation for tragic financial losses?
The time has come to end the silence and the lies!
Dr. PHILIP SIEGEL
Beverly Hills
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