Personal Injury Resources

If you have a work related injury, make sure to get it documented! Otherwise it's difficult to get workman's compensation.

In 2002, Rose had to have surgery on her shoulder. The pain had gotten bad. The social science departments housed in Trinity Hall were moving to a new building, Stern Hall. Before the move, Trinity was filled with boxes and bags of discarded books, old exams, outdated files, boring academic journals--the detrius of faculty lives. There was no elevator in Trinity, so the cleaners had to carry the heavy boxes and bags down three flights of stairs. Rose was 55. So she took time off to have surgery but was then laid off for missing too much work. She didn't get any workman's compensation. Her regular doctor said that it was clear the injury was work related (Dr. Platzer), but Rose didn't know about that until it was too late. When the doctor who peformed the surgery (Dr. Lieburg) asked her if the injury was work related, she said yes but that he could put what he wanted. He told her it would faster to use her health insurance through Marriott (the company that manages the cleaning staff at HWS) and put in her records that the injury was not related to work.

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