Californians Injured At Work Goes National, Changes Name To Reflect Their New Direction!

"Californians Injured At Work, one of the oldest and largest injured worker advocacy organizations in California has announced that they are now serving not only the injured workers of California, but the injured workers of America thru their newly incorporated non-profit organization, the 'National Organization of Injured Workers, Inc.' (NOIW) . . . NOIW's primary goal is to aid, assist, educate, empower and organize America's occupationally injured workers, and to keep them from becoming victims . . . To stop the rampant unchecked fraud by committed by insurers . . . America's injured workers have been demonized by the insurance industry for too many years as the ones that cause the high price of Workers' Compensation insurance and that's just plain not true, but it makes great PR spin for the insurance industry publicists. Injured worker fraud by the industry's own admission is less than 1%. And we're just starting to hear about employer fraud . . . The Exclusive Remedy Doctrine' which is the basic foundation of Workers' Compensation systems around America is simply used as a shield against civil and criminal prosecution for criminal acts committed by the insurers that would land them in jail in any other type of scenario. . . . Noticeably missing in print, radio & TV media is any reference to the biggest segment of fraud, the biggest overall piece of the pie, the fraud perpetrated by the insurance companies themselves against occupationally injured workers in the name of reducing their financial exposure, and the total lack of investigation and prosecution of those responsible for it. . . . The 'Injured On The JobTM' television show is used to visually show the devastation that is occurring to injured workers and their families."

NOIW, based in Elk Grove, (Sacramento County) California will take over the production of the 'Injured On The JobTM' television show, the only regularly scheduled television show in America that deals specifically with exposing the fraud and corruption in our Workers Compensation systems in a manner that is easy for the viewer to comprehend and understand.

Insurer Fraud is bringing the system down to its' knees, yet no one in any type of regulatory role in state government will hold the insurers accountable to the same letter of the law that California's injured workers are forced to comply with.

Sam Gold, volunteer director states, 'Fraud is fraud, no matter who commits it, and it should be dealt with sternly and to the fullest extent that the law provides. Americans end up paying for fraud in the form of higher prices for durable goods, and employers end up paying higher insurance premiums. Insurance industry lobbying money and political contributions have a very loud voice in the state capitals of America and should not be used to legitimize what were formerly illegal acts. It is not in the public interest and is simply bad public policy!'

The Exclusive Remedy Doctrine' which is the basic foundation of Workers' Compensation systems around America is simply used as a shield against civil and criminal prosecution for criminal acts committed by the insurers that would land them in jail in any other type of scenario.

Workers' Compensation is no longer about TRUTH & JUSTICE, nor is it about FAIRNESS & EQUITY. It's simply about what can be proven in front of an Administrative Law Judge by some of the slickest, master manipulators of the law, insurance company defense attorneys!

Workers' Compensation judges are simply looking the other way as to what goes on in their courtrooms. They have an obligation to contact the appropriate authorities should they sense that fraud is involved in any casethat is brought before them.

NOIW's primary goal is to aid, assist, educate, empower and organize America's occupationally injured workers, and to keep them from becoming victims of the false prosecutions of their employers and the big insurance companies that insure them. To stop the rampant unchecked fraud by committed by insurers, and hold them accountable to the same standard of law as the injured workers themselves are held to.

America's injured workers have been demonized by the insurance industry for too many years as the ones that cause the high price of Workers' Compensation insurance and that's just plain not true, but it makes great PR spin for the insurance industry publicists. Injured worker fraud by the industry's own admission is less than 1%. And we're just starting to hear about employer fraud; misclassifying employees as independent contractors or not carrying any Workers' Compensation insurance at all. In some states it's now a felony!

Noticeably missing in print, radio & TV media is any reference to the biggest segment of fraud, the biggest overall piece of the pie, the fraud perpetrated by the insurance companies themselves against occupationally injured workers in the name of reducing their financial exposure, and the total lack of investigation and prosecution of those responsible for it.

The 'Injured On The JobTM' television show is used to visually show the devastation that is occurring to injured workers and their families, as well as keep injured workers informed of the latest developments that concern them, with interviews with principals in the field.

Said Mr. Gold, 'This is the 21st century and you'd better use 21st century media methods to get your message out to the public or you'll simply get left unnoticed. Our full-featured website, blog, message forums, news portal, streaming media and document search engine located at www.noiw.org are rich in visual media content and cater individually to those in our 50 states and Canada. We are also affiliating with existing statewide and provincial injured worker advocacy organizations who can benefit greatly from our extensive media infrastructure'.