Ted Kennedy Does Something Right - Believe It Or Not!

[ArkansasHunter]

I didn't get a job one time because the company I applied to found I was on workmans comp and also learned what my problem was.
I was in a wreck and hurt the small of my back from the seatbelt locking in.
Got over it and moved on.
I wonder how many others have had that happen to them ?

EDIT: What I don't like is that this company used a service for my back ground check.
Once that sevice got this information I'm sure it's held in there data base and who knows who gets to use or see it now.

[bigbuddy21]

Originally Posted by ezearln

Okay on the notion of drug/alchohol testing, hath thou ever considered that ANY freakin time a four wheeler (personal vehicle) and an 18 wheeler is involved in ANY accident/incident the 18 wheeler driver is immediately tested for drugs or alchohol whilst the poor "Victim" four wheel driver simply goes to the hospital? I drove for awhile my friends and sad fact is most "Big Truck" and passenger vehicle accidents are NOT the fault of the truck driver but of the passenger vehicle driver. Gawd knows how many brain dead soccor moms, yuppies and stoners I dodged driving trucks as they talked on cell phones , picked their noses or bopped to the tunes on their radios and or visited with passengers riding with them!

you got that right EARL, i'm a trucker and i saw an article by the FHWSA
that 95% of truck and car accidents are caused by the cardrivers, but
the truck co's are paying to keep from being sued.

i've been driving trucks for 30 yrs and only have had two accidents and
neither one was my fault but both times my co. paid the pricks to stay out of court.

i will go pee in a cup anytime i'm asked and i never have to worry about
failing. what i think is fair is that everyone has to pee in a cup to get a drivers license.

and another thing just because i have the hazmat endorsement on my
C.D.L. to get it renewed this yr. i will have to start the process two
months early dueto having to have a F.B.I. background check and full
fingerprinting done. as ordered by the H.S.C. ...... not really bitching
just stating the facts.

[GlockMeister]

Well A.H. HIPPA is suppose to prevent this/that. But employers and insurance companies are finding and have probably found ways around it.

[jimkim]

I have friends that drive some are owner/operators some drive for the company. They have one thing in common they get hosed. Had one buddy that had a woman try to pass him ON an off ramp. She didn't want to wait at the light I guess. She ran into him. When the police arrived she asked them for a xanax. She admitted it was her fault. (I saw the report all this is documented) Now she is suing "LUCKY". She also had small children in her car but that is another story. He is thinking about just paying her. He says whats the point in going to court and losing money to fight this thing. Drivers get hosed and they know it.

[mym1a]

lol Kennedy was probably in the process of getting his health insurance cancelled due to his liver being pickled?????

[ArkansasHunter]

G-M your Hippa rights are waved when you have to sign some pre-employment back ground check documents.

[DWFan]

Young widower pushes for change in Mass. life insurance law: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Insurance companies and "previously existing conditions". Please note which state this is in.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by DWFan

Young widower pushes for change in Mass. life insurance law: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Insurance companies and "previously existing conditions". Please note which state this is in.

I'm not sure what your point is. If you're laying responsibility for a state law at Kennedy's feet, he isn't in the state government; he's a U.S Senator. If you're saying that sort of thing happening in his own state might have gotten his attention and prompted him to do something nationally, I suppose it's possible.

[DWFan]

You can't very well lay state law at Teddy's feet, but it goes to the mindset of the state and the people he represents.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by DWFan

You can't very well lay state law at Teddy's feet, but it goes to the mindset of the state and the people he represents.

Not necessarily. there are a lot of laws across the country that don't really express the mindset or will of the people. Instead, they express the viewpoint of whatever lobbyists had the ear of the legislature at the time; the people weren't really consulted.