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file.gif Sing it again, Saif: Denied, denied, denied The Oregonian's Steve Duin writes about the cost shift of denied workers' compensation claims from employers to taxpayers. A retired state worker describes a pattern of legitimate claims being denied.
file.gif Worked over by the workers' comp system The Oregonian's Steve Duin writes about a denied workers' compensation claim. A security guard was forced to spent at least six hours locked in the 6-foot-by-6-foot guard shack with fumes from a pesticide.
file.gif Dealing With SAIF - Sick and feeling like a criminal A KATU investigation uncovers questionable behavior in claim denials by SAIF against Oregon schoolteachers. Among other things, canned IME reports are exposed. View RealPlayer video (Report 1)  (Report 2)
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file.gif Injured workers relate horror stories A Baker City Herald article about local workers suffering under the workers' compensation system.
file.gif In the Line of Duty Published by Portland's Willamette Week on April 28, 1999, it describes the efforts of Oregon based injured worker advocacy organizations.
file.gif Falling_down_on_the_job Entitled "Workers comp: Falling down on the job," it was published in Consumer Reports Magazine in February 2000. Magazine recommendations include: Workers deserve more help from the workers-compensation system than they're getting.
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