Back injury from prior job.. legal question

[Sean of the Thread]

The owners were scientologists and I hurt back doing a rack server swap and ended up in the emergency room that day. Tore a muscle in my back basically.

Anyways they wouldn't let me do workman's comp and basically forced me to goto the VP's wife's clinic for acupuncture and massage instead or lose my job. Well my back is still fucked up.

Can I sue the fucking bastards? I've been training for a return to service but this shit is killing me.

[Moist Happenings]

If the item in question is more than 30 pounds, and you can prove it was a required job responsibility, they're obligated by Florida law to give you safe lifting technique training. If they failed to provide that, you can prove that they told you to do it, and that's where the injury came from (the difficult part in your situation), then you have a lawsuit.

At Office Depot we had to give anyone who could possibly have to ever handle a computer monitor or something training to cover our asses. Even the people that would never have to do that sort of thing, like the Cashiers.

[Skeeter]

Do you have anything at all than can prove where and when and why the injury occurred? w/o that you're SOL. Even with that it would be tough since you did not seek medical attention timely.

[The Ponzzz]

If it was longer than a year, not much you can do. Even within 90 days, you're still looking at some serious lawyer expenses to get your foot in the door to sue them.

As Skeet Skeet said, you have to prove without a reason of a doubt where you were, when it was and show negligence on behalf of your former employers.

[Sean of the Thread]

Do you have anything at all than can prove where and when and why the injury occurred? w/o that you're SOL. Even with that it would be tough since you did not seek medical attention timely.


As in set alarm... locked doors... and had my assistant drive me to the emergency room timely?

[Sean of the Thread]

My question was more along the lines of they wouldn't allow it to go through a workman comp channel with them being scientologists and made me go through an "alternative" natural treatment of acupuncture and some other crazy shit.

[The Ponzzz]

Call Tome Cruise.

[Skeeter]

As in set alarm... locked doors... and had my assistant drive me to the emergency room timely?

can you prove it? If so consult one of those ambulance chasers.

[diethx]

Wasn't there a whole thread on this last year or something? I definitely remember people giving you advice on what to do. Why didn't you handle it then?

[Furrowfoot]

Call Tome Cruise.

Yeah, the book is always better than the movie(star).

[thefarmer]

Wasn't there a whole thread on this last year or something? I definitely remember people giving you advice on what to do. Why didn't you handle it then?

This shouldn't surprise you...

[diethx]

I dunno, I figured if it was something that was time-sensitive... :shrug:

[Sean of the Thread]

Wasn't there a whole thread on this last year or something? I definitely remember people giving you advice on what to do. Why didn't you handle it then?


The thread was a couple years ago I think but the back problem went away. Well the same muscle is fucking up again so it appears it's a chronic dealio and I contacted the people about seeing if I could the therapy again and they said tough shit.

Sooo that's where I'm at.

But someone kindly gave me a PM on the issue. Thx!

[Skeeter]

go see a chiropractor. The right ones are miracle workers.

[Sean of the Thread]

It's a muscular problem. I tore a rhomboid or some part of one I forget which. I don't think a chiropractor is gonna help. :(

[Skeeter]

My back issues are muscle problems, and she does wonders for me. Gets the inflamation down, eases out the knots, etc.

and the coup de grace... It's like $37 / visit.