In a survey conducted recently by the Pacific Business News, 73% of our local businesses reponded that their NUMBER ONE issue was the soaring costs of workers' compensation (along with rising premiums for prepaid healthcare insurance).
^above FROM web site incase revised^

ed. IT IS 2006 AND IT IS WORSE. hb 1867 WAS VETOED BY GOV. ? KAUAI CHAMBER COMMERCE STRONGLY OPPOSED IT? AND OUR SENATOR TOO?.  LOOKING INTO FACTS HERE.
WAS  "...IF COMPANY-- SAID EMPLOYEE NOT IN NEED OF MORE TREATMENTS- STOP THEM UNTIL A HEARING BY DISABILITY D.O.L. OFFICE GIVES YOU A CALENDAR DATE. 
60 day min. APPEAL CAN TAKE 6 months while your injury festers to permanent damage!!!
 THEN: They demand reply's in 20 days from day sent to ** (most here still are P.O.boxes, they have USPS door to door and staff)  ** disabled worker?
I SAW ONE EVENT TAKE 4 months TO GET DATE, THEN UNRESOLVED ON THE SPOT BY A DECISION MAKER SOLUTION MADE EMPLOYEE SEVERELY INJURED LIFE POTENTIALLY ALTERING... TOOK -11MOS. MORE than ONE OCCASION KNOWN OF,  STILL DENYING CARE, TO THIS PERSON. 

DEDICATED INJURED WORKER LEFT TO FLOUNDER IN PAIN, LOSS OF MONEY, MAYBE MEDICATION, FAMILY -TO WELFARE  3 WEEKS WHEN LOOSING 40% OF PAY AND 2ND 3RD JOBS, ABILITY TO MANUFACTURE INCOME SOURCES.... 

(THINK LEGISLATORS???? DA BRAIN.  SUFFER THE=VICTIM OFTEN BY EMPLOYER DERELICTION.

 THE LONGER A TREATABLE INJURY IS NOT TREATED THE WORSE IT WILL GET AND CAN CAUSE ADDED PROBLEMS DUE TO PRIMARY INJURY.

P.S. TO ALL STATE CIVIL SERVANTS (d.o.l. etc.)   Thank You ms. Chao. U.S. D.O.L. Secretary

 HENCE, PATIENT WANTS PAYBACK FOR DEVASTATIONS OF LIVELIHOODS, FAMILY, WAITING WITHOUT MEANS, ETC.,  LIVING WITH SOMEONE IN PAIN, IS NOT FUN NOR EASY, DOES SPOUSE OR KIDS GET ANYTHING? NO..

 PAIN. PAIN, 24/7 HRS NOT 8 HRS, 5 DAY A WEEK. IN PAIN 24/7 LOSS OF LIFE FUNCTION ECONOMICALLY, FAMILY, EMBARRASSMENT SOCIALLY. COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS  QUICKLY IN HIGH 5 AND SURPASS 6 DIGITS, DILLY DALLYING AROUND. AND HE /SHE DESERVES IT.

 EVERY BODY ELSE IS MAKING MONEY EVERY PAY DAY!, ~~((WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THEIR FELLOW SISTER OR BROTHER, WE ARE THEIR KEEPERS))~~ 16 HOURS A DAY TO CHOICE WHAT TO DO, DAY TRADING, REAL ESTATE, HOBBY, PARTNER SENSUALITY, FAMILY ASSISTANCE, ETC. ETC. ETC. 

BUT THE INJURED GETS ALL LOSSES, MAINTENANCE OF INVESTMENTS , TO HOME, YARD, CAR, ETC. 
AND LOST INCOME TO PAY OTHERS TO DO PHYSICALLY WHAT SHE-HE CANNOT.  YOU CAN SEE SOME PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT LOOKING UNINJURED BUT DO YOU KNOW THEIR TEARS HOME? OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW?. [ HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO A NEIGHBOR OR FREIND ON DISABILITY -INJURED WAITING FOR HELP MEDICALLY, FINANCIALLY, GONE AND ASKED OR DO WHAT IS OBVIOUSLY FALLEN BEHIND ON HAVE YOU?? (CIVIL SERVANT TOO , LEGISLATOR, SENATORS, HAVE YOU??) OR DO "ALL" OF YOU THINK THERE JUST SUCKING A FREE RIDE,( CRACK THOSE THAT ARE- DIFFERENT TOPIC!) WHEN HE WAS FIRED ON DISABILITY, OR LOST HIS-HER 2ND JOB.???  SOME CAN STILL DO MINOR WORK. LAW SAYS IF HAVE TWO JOBS YOU CAN STILL WORK LESS STRENUOUS IF DOCTOR OKAYED AND GET DISABILITY PAY ALSO.. [I.E. NOT ME OTHER JOB NEEDED MODEST MUSCLE BUT PAID MIN 5 X'S THAT OF JOB THAT HAVE HURT ME BY NEGLIGENCE, WELL INFORMED, Period. SCENARIOS HERE, I'M SCREWED!]  SOME NOT - IT'S DOM'S. NOT Dom Perignon Ha Ha!. Here, ONE IS CALLED -DELAYED ONSET MUSCLE SYNDROMES (doms)- AFTER A FRACTION OF A DAY OF OUTPUT FEMALE-MALE.
 YOUR DISMAYED IN SO MUCH PAIN FOR DAYS, YOU MAY WANT TO HURT SOMEONE.... IT CAN COME FROM A less than a 
1/2 HOUR OF MOWING YOUR LAWN, OR SANDING WINDOW EAVE TO PAINT, CLEAN YOUR HOUSE, LIKE YOU USED TO.
BUT IT KNOCKS YOU ON YOUR POSTERIOR HARD. 

TRULY A WORK INJURY PERSON IS BETTER TO HAVE A CAST OR SCAR SO THE IGNORANT  (ALL)  CAN SEE IT.

BACK TO CORE COMMON DENSE-NESS- MORE TREATMENTS, TO RESTORE= MORE $$$,$$$,$$$, = HIGHER PREMIUMS NEXT TIME AROUND! BY THE BUSINESS PEOPLE. Just like year before again!

"INJURED WORKERS RAPID REHABILITATION PROGRAM"  

=spread the concept=
It goes with legislators naming a BILL for what it -IS-.
 AND ONLY IT. ONE NAME, ONE BILL: CONTEXT.

 THE NEW U.S. injured WORKERS. COMPENSATION. PROGRAM NAME!-

Hawaii has the less than < 7 day or $5000 fine for supervisor not rapidly getting papers to D.O.L.  TOO FEW GET THE FINE. "VERBAL NOTICE TO BOSS OR WRITTEN of your injury They ARE TO DO IT "  

Hawaii has the 15/60 H.R.S.  rule- law, the doctor has 15 treatments  of his choice, in the first 60 days before insurance or employer can interfere. I've see the above two done to a top choice worker, not done and tuned a 6 week neurologist estimate (with the agreed therapy with Dr. Pain Control, Pys. Therapy. Massage Therapy. Acupuncture, Spinal Chiro care. ) SIMPLE THERAPY IF DEEPER DAMAGE NOT EXPOSED.  

TIME Delayed DID THE ABOVE damage AND MORE BY COMPANY SUPERVISOR, WITH Twice ADDED FALSE STATEMENTS AND Altered EVIDENCE TO  ( un-prosecuted to date 1-07) HI.O.S.H.A., NO FINE FOR FIRST LIE ABOUT WHAT CAUSED AND SOURCE OF INJURY, ONLY IF WHEN FIRED WORKER FOR WHISTLE BLOWING.

THIS HAS CAUSED DOCUMENTED AND HIDDEN AND ADDED DAMAGE TO THIS WORKER AND 3 YEARS OF LOSS OF LIFE'S ACTIVITY OF CHOICE AND SIX DIGIT INCOME, AND TAX CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMMUNITY IN KIND TIME AND LABOR OR MONEY TOO!.

THIS SEVERE INJURY COULD HAVE BEEN FIXED IN 3 MONTHS IF NOT BLOCKED BY EMPLOYER AND D.O.L. Hearings. drug cost alone are more than 3mos. of therapy.

AS A BUSINESS MAN AND EMPLOYEE WORKER , BOTH TOGETHER AND SEPARATELY, THIS EXAMPLE INFURIATES ME.  AND MORE SO remedies are SIMPLE BUT NOT IMPLEMENTED!

THERE IS MORE "FRAUDS IN BUSINESS'S",  But YOU ARE LEAD TO BELIEVE IT'S ALL THE BAD WORKERS FAULT.   I BET THERE 10 PERCENT, 90% IS THE SYSTEM...

PETERS PRINCIPLE SUPERVISORS - WORKERS NIGHTMARE COUNTRIES DOWNFALL

QUALITY FOR ALL OR LOYALTY TO NONE, mfg. vender, store, etc.gn