VotersInjuredatWork.org, Consumer Leaders Demand That Insurance Giant AIG: Stop Cheating Injured Workers and Taxpayers.SACRAMENTO, Calif. & LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Injured workers and consumer advocates today demanded that the world's largest insurer, AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD) AIG American International Group, Inc AiG Answers in Genesis (religious group in defense of Scripture) AIG Artificial Intelligence Group AIG Australian Industry Group , "stop cheating injured workers out of needed medical care," and demanded "restitution" for AIG's practice of not paying injured workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. on time. The injured workers and consumer leaders also called for an investigation into whether the workers compensation insurance giant "cheated California taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars." "AIG is cheating injured workers out of their medical care and compensation, and may have cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars through insurance fraud," said Mark Hayes Mark Hayes may refer to:
"We're fed up with injured workers being called frauds by scofflaws like AIG as they defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or the public and the injured workers they've insured. We demand a complete audit of AIG and a full, formal investigation into the fraud they've committed. We demand restitution of all monies they've withheld from injured workers and the people of California." VotersInjuredatWork.org, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, and the Consumer Federation of California The Consumer Federation of California (CFC) was founded in 1960 as a non-profit consumer advocacy organization. CFC campaigns for state and federal laws and appears at the California State Legislature in support of consumer focused regulations. charged that the company is denying injured workers medical care and may be avoiding payment of millions of dollars owed to the people of California. "Governor Schwarzenegger never stands up to his donors, and AIG has given him nearly $150,000. That's why the Governor has not called AIG to account for apparently defrauding the state's taxpayers and businesses, and it's why he has sat back and let AIG cheat injured California workers," said Doug Heller Doug Heller is a Southern California-based consumer advocate, the executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, and a policy expert on insurance industry practices and energy policy. of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "AIG is the world's largest commercial insurance company, and it is benefiting immensely from denying injured workers' the care and compensation they need and deserve," said Richard Holober, executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, at the Sacramento news conference. "Insurance carriers are reporting that their California workers' compensation line of business continues to provide record profits. AIG, the state's largest private workers' compensation insurer, reported record profits of $11.05 billion for 2004, up 19% over 2003. It should be a crime to victimize injured workers and the people of California and then pocket the rewards of your own fraud and misconduct." http://www.VIAW VIAW Voters Injured at Work (California) .org/ |
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