Treatment for extensive injuries is protracted though the accident was minor. Injured worker protests about returning to work and never seems to improve. Summary medical bills submitted without dates or descriptions of office visits. Medical bills submitted are photocopies of originals. Extensive or unnecessary treatment for minor, subjective injuries.
Injuries are all subjective, i.e. pain, headaches, nausea, inability to sleep.
Injured worker cancels or fails to keep appointment, or refuses a diagnostic procedure to confirm an injury. Treatment dates appear on holidays or other days that facilities would not normally be open. Injured worker is immediately referred for a wide variety of psychiatric tests, when the original claim involved trauma only. Attorney lien or representation letter dated the day of the reported incident. Claimant complains to carrier's CEO at home office to press for payment.