A Day in the Life: Riverside Electrician Can't Get Medical Care Three Years After His Injury on Job--Asks California Insurance Commissioner to Investigate

Published: October 18, 2007, 3:00 pm

Denial of Needed Care Leaving Family Destitute--Unfortunately is Typical By Frank D. Russo Greg Parr was injured over three years ago while working as an electrician. He fell and injured his left arm and shoulder. After more than three years, he still can't get authorization for needed care. Outside the Workers Compensation Appeals Board in downtown Riverside, he told his story of how an insurance company has been able to get away with leaving him and his family I the lurch by overruling medical care recommended by his doctor that he needs to get back to work. He called for Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and Division of Workers Compensation Director Carrie Nevans to investigate insurance company abuse of "medical care review." If this was just a single case, it would be a personal tragedy. Unfortunately it is all too common. As an attorney who represented injured workers for over a quarter of a century, I have seen this before, but what is accepted as commonplace today

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