You got hurt at work...this is what to expect.
         

Almost Broken is for those that have been pushed and shoved in this system we call workers comp.
This site is to let you know you are not alone and sometimes give incite into why you are still waiting 5 years for your treatment, what to look for, how to deal with it in the meantime. Too often there are stories that lead to despaire.The impact on your family will be more then you could ever dream of. The design of the insurance companies are to break you down, take what little dignity you have left, break up your family and leave you homeless unless you take what they have to offer. What they offer will leave you even further broken, alone, and in debt. Our hope is to keep this from happening and give hope enough to keep fighting - to keep you-
Almost Broken. Not completely. but almost, and hopefully strong enough to fight
for your basic civil right. And then to arm you with knowledge you will need to help understand about insurance companies and understand that their main goal is to make you go away out of their own greed. A bad game of Deal or no Deal and you loose no matter what. But here's the deal, do you want to fight or do you want to sit and wait. If you want to fight, if you want to know how, this is the place for you.
The Bottom Line

New Addition to our family at Almost Broken : United Support & Memorial For Workplace Fatalities
If you have suffered and injury in the work place, or you have lost a loved one to a work place accident this is the link for you

 

9/18/2008 NEWS FLASH: The chief of staff of San Joaquin Community Hospital, Dr. Jeff Freesemann, and his wife are among a group arrested on suspicion of distributing cocaine and methamphetamine.

FLASH!!!!!! State Fund Not Taking Cuts While DMV and the Injured Suffer!

New York Corporation Guilty In $211G Workers' Compensation Fraud

Equitable Life victims 'should get billions in compensation'

What's going on in NY SCIF? Is this what we are headed for?

Isn't this what we've been saying for...ah...ever?

LIES AND MORE LIES! WHILE THE STATE WORKERS ARE REDUCED TO MINIMUM WAGES
GUESS WHO WILL RETAIN THEIR REGULAR WAGES? SCIF!!!
If you are as upset as the rest of us,
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 Maybe Gray Davis Was Right...again...sign here

The California Dream is empty but the pockets of Arnie's friends are full.

 

It's time to clean up California and throw away the trash that left over 30,000 people with untreated injuries!

On Feb. 4, 2005, protesters gathered outside the office of State Compensation Insurance Fund
in San Francisco, CA. Their response? They laughed.
After all, how could a handful of injured workers be of any threat to them?
Since then, Diane Oki announced her retirement, SCIF has been found short on their audit...Their new buildings are on hold. It's only a matter of time...Keep laughing guys...AIG laughed too.

 

RICO trial on Sept. 15, 2008
Bakersfield, CA

Note: Attempts to corrupt this site and the links to the Barb Clark page have been foiled. There is a full investigation into this matter due to the recent events following the Barb Clark Case.


This is where is started...
This one picture that captured the attention of the country and the heart strings of America.
One man with the courage to stand up and fight against a system to bring justice to himself those that can't fight for themselves.


This is where it traveled as a result...
See the movie and details here
Watch the first 5 minutes and hear what a top computer sercurity specialist has to say about a Government agency wanting to block Larry's website from public view.



This is where it's heading...Where will it end?
Without the help and support of the State of California, it is only going to get worse.
Someone needs to step up to the plate and do the right thing for this man and his family.
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A MUST SEE Film for
anyone injured or not!
Almost Broken Director Malik Stalbert Speaks OUT!
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This site has consistently stated the lack of accountability in State Fund operations and policy.

 

In the beginning of all this, the purpose was to expose one man's story to the public, to expose the wrongs that have been done to him and his family as a result of a system gone wrong. What started with one man's story quickly turned into thousands of story's from across the state. All watching, and all with the same stories. Hundreds have contacted me, all with the same story hoping to shock me but now, there is little now that can surprise me. There are people out there, in this country dying. Sentenced to death because through no fault of their own, working citizens of this country, no longer considered' productive citizens'. Too tired, too hurt, and sometimes too medicated to fight.

We met with a nurse practitioner that was horribly injured delivering a baby into this world. Barbara Clark who finally had to resort to using medicare to do the surgery that would save her life. While she still is in need of care, and will be the rest of her life, she is still waiting for justice and went the route of the legal system that has taken her life savings and now her second home leaving her homeless. But still she fights.

What does that have to do with the general public? Your tax dollars are having to be used by those injured to save their lives, and those tax dollars pay for what the insurance company should be paying. It comes out of your pocket till Medicare can reclaim their money from the insurance companies. This should really piss you off. It's called cost shifting and continues to drain the medicare funds. Some injured at work use their own insurance to try to pay for their injuries. That means that your premiums for insurance can go up. All because the people, insurance companys, are not doing their job and now the burden falls on you.

 If you are a business person, then you pay at random what the insurance company decides you should for work comp protection that your employees will never see. It comes out of your pocket and still, your employee will not be taken care of if there is a serious injury. The average waiting time for a surgery is now two years.
I have met people that live in storage containers because they have lost their homes and have no where to go. I have seen people in such pain because they could not get pain medication after SB899 was passed that took their own lives leaving behind a family that now has to cope with their loss.
California Injured Worker Community Anxiously Awaits Decision from Ninth Circuit

Check Back for new stories of new people all suffering the same pain and lack of civil rights to basic health care. Would you like to be a whistle blower, and willing to make a video?
Contact me

Barbara Clark's appellant brief filed in the Ninth Circuit
Work Comp Fraud; Stop the Hypocrisy
David J. DePaolo

NEWS?
California -- Suit Charges Price Fixing by Blue Cross and State Fund:

 

Doctors report gives motive for cutting off all medical care and refused to pay for lung treatment equipment.

Do you have a State Fund Story that you would like to tell? Do you have a video camera?
Contact me!

Penal Code 550(b) and Insurance Code 1871.4 make it a crime to provide false, misleading and erroneous data related to work comp claims (regardless if a loss never takes place).

Nearly $40 million collected for the Workers' Compensation Fraud Account (see Labor Code 62.6) is allocated to California district attorneys and the DOI Fraud Unit; this money is paid by employers. Self insured plans (like the Adventist hospital chain) pay the funds to the Office of Self Insured Plans (OSIP). The Adventist hospital chain is therefore not investigated as this would be "biting the hand that feeds them." (see L. A. Times article Public Fraud Unit Favors Those Who Privately Fund It, Aug. 6, 2000).

The terms “Adventologists” and “Adventology” are copyrighted by Barb Clark and may be freely used in connection with articles about this web site.
The terms "Adventologists" and "Adventology" are a trademark Barbara Clark.

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Use of any photographs to illustrate a newsworthy story is done so for non-commercial purposes by www.almostbroken.com . Photographs used to illustrate a news item for non-commercial purposes are those of public figures who are deemed to have released their expectation of privacy by participating in a public event or by filing public records.
"Commenting on a matter of public concern is a classic form of speech that lies at the heart of the First Amendment." (Annette F. v. Sharon S., supra, 119 Cal.App.4th at p. 1162, 15 Cal.Rptr.3d 100)

The real abusers? 1 in 4 L.A. County employees on work comp.

Was President Bush's Adventology video Congressman Doolittle's idea?

Hear Malik Stalbert, Director of Almost Broken deliver his radio address!

SCIF corruption probe sparks new jingle

Placer County jail conditions subject of press conference

Does John C. Duncan have conflicts of interest?

FLASH, John Duncan replaces John Rea

Barb Clark Story Reaches International Concern

SCIF fraud investigation continues to grow like a cancer

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST STATE OFFICIALS
Lawsuit brings rampant state corruption to light.

ROLE REVERSAL: The State Fund and its lawyers always insist that the courts strictly apply the technicalities of the workers’ compensation rules no matter how unfair that might be to an injured worker. Now State Fund is asking not to have federal criminal statues applied to them for their white collar corruption and mail fraud. I DON'T THINK SO!