Independent medical exams conducted as part of New York’s workers’ compensation system routinely favor the position of insurers, regardless of a worker’s actual injuries.  A review of case files and interviews revealed that the largely unregulated doctors who conduct the examinations routinely tilt their reports to benefit insurers by minimizing or dismissing bona fide injuries in order to get paid by insurance companies. Said one doctor, “You have to give them what they want, or you’re in Florida. That’s the game, baby.” N.R. Kleinfield, The New York Times 03/31/2009
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The nation’s most extensive mine collapse in the last half-century was caused by a toxic combination of risky mine planning and lax regulatory oversight, the Department of Labor has determined. Still, the families of workers who died in the Crandall Canyon mine collapse and subsequent rescue efforts feel that they have been failed by the mining company and the government. Paul Foy, Newsday 08/06/2008