New Detroit Police Officers Medically uninsured for the first 90 days

[Meddle]

What other ways?

Workmen's Comp for one.

Certainly if a city employee is hurt on the job, the city will pay their medical bills.

General health insurance benefits are often withheld for 3 months, sometimes longer.

[cla1945]

Workmen's Comp for one.

Certainly if a city employee is hurt on the job, the city will pay their medical bills.

General health insurance benefits are often withheld for 3 months, sometimes longer.

Ask Doogie, the firefighter that was paralyzed when a wall fell on him and two other firemen a couple of years ago...CofD cut his disability, isn't paying his bills, and more or less told him to go F himself.

[Wesley Mouch]

Ask Doogie, the firefighter that was paralyzed when a wall fell on him and two other firemen a couple of years ago...CofD cut his disability, isn't paying his bills, and more or less told him to go F himself.

This doesn't ring true. Michigan has strong workman's compensation rules that cover workplace injuries very well. If there's a case where this isn't true -- there's probably something much more complex going on. Cities can't just yank workman's compensation coverage legally. This is probably a fringe case involving fraud, abuse, or facts.

For the most part, your general health coverage does NOT cover workplace injuries. Workers Compensation insurance for workplace injuries is already mandatory and mostly comprehensive.

[cla1945]

This doesn't ring true. Michigan has strong workman's compensation rules that cover workplace injuries very well. If there's a case where this isn't true -- there's probably something much more complex going on. Cities can't just yank workman's compensation coverage legally. This is probably a fringe case involving fraud, abuse, or facts.

For the most part, your general health coverage does NOT cover workplace injuries. Workers Compensation insurance for workplace injuries is already mandatory and mostly comprehensive.

We're talking City of Detroit here. All I know is that the City isn't paying medical bills for him that they are responsible for. I also know that another firefighter brother was injured on the job, [[shoulder), had surgery, began therapy to get the shoulder moving and the City stopped paying the doctor bills. The doctor refused to take any City of Detroit employees who had been injured on the job because Detroit stopped paying. This isn't just starting, it's been going on for many months.

[Wesley Mouch]

We're talking City of Detroit here. All I know is that the City isn't paying medical bills for him that they are responsible for. ...

Comment respectfully withdrawn. Its Motortown, Jake.

So I believe that the City machinery is somehow not fulfilling its legal obligation to workmans comp. But I do hope that this is a mistake, not a policy action.

[motz]

Workmen's Comp for one.

Certainly if a city employee is hurt on the job, the city will pay their medical bills.

General health insurance benefits are often withheld for 3 months, sometimes longer.

Yeah, I've only had one job where benefits started 30 days after hiring, and that is definitely a huge exception to the general rule of "90 day probation-like state" followed by full benefits, paid time off, sometimes wage increases, etc.