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I’ve Been Denied Unemployment Benefits And Need Help

Can my employer make me do a fake job?

We don’t like it one bit, but the answer is “probably.” If you are in the “healing period” before you reach maximum medical improvement then your employer can ask you to come to work and do just about anything as long as it is within the doctors’ restrictions. Once you are at maximum medical improvement, […]
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What is secondary gain?

February 26, 2015
Secondary Gain: What Does It Mean? Secondary gain is a psychological term that refers to a motivating factor that a patient has in reporting symptoms or complaints of pain. More simply, the secondary gain is an outside reason or benefit to complaining of pain or mental or physical symptoms. For instance, if you tell your […]
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What is symptom magnification?

February 12, 2015
Symptom Magnification refers to the reporting of symptoms that are greater than what would be expected. But that is a very unsatisfying definition. In the context of a workers’ compensation claim, it’s just about the worst thing one can say shortly after calling someone an outright fraud. The problem with labeling someone with such a […]
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What is a functional capacities evaluation?

February 4, 2015
A Functional Capacities Evaluation, or FCE, is theoretically a test that fairly and accurately evaluates a person’s capacity to work at certain levels over a lengthy period of time. There are a number of different FCE systems in place but they share certain things in common. First, a therapist will likely explain what is expected […]
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What is pain management?

January 18, 2015
Wikipedia gives as good a definition as any: Pain management is a branch of medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of live of those living with pain. That’s well and good but what does it mean in the context of workers’ compensation? We usually see pain management coming […]
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