The Cost of Combat Stress: a Billion Dollars a Year
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on April 18, 2011 A billion for US Soldiers alone. How much would it be if the Defense Base Act Insurance Carriers were providing the psychological and medical care for...
View ArticleTim Eysselinck, Ronco Consulting PTSD Casualty, Seven Years Ago Today
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on April 22, 2011 Tim Eysselinck April 23, 2004 We lost Tim Eysslinck to PTSD seven years ago today. May Ronco Consulting and their lies, CNA, Roger Levy, Gary Pitts, Judge...
View ArticlePatrick Elkins of Clinton awarded Defense of Freedom Medal after being...
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on May 12, 2011 Permanent nerve damage ended Elkins’ career as a truck driver, the only job he ever wanted. Battles with an insurance company halted Elkins’ benefits and...
View ArticleText of S.669: Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act Amendments of 2011
Text of S. 669: Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act Amendments of 2011 Posted by defensebaseactcomp on May 17, 2011 A bill re-introduced in the United States Senate and backed by maritime...
View ArticleTwo New Contractor PTSD Suicides this week
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on May 19, 2011 It is with sorrow that knows no bounds this evening that we must announce that the contractor community has lost two more lives to PTSD only five days apart...
View ArticleUS Insurance Firm CNA Neglects Survivors of Iraqi Tanslators, May Face...
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on May 23, 2011 U.S. insurer faces criminal probe over Iraqis’ unpaid death benefits By T Christian Miller at ProPublica May 23, 2011 and The LA Times An administrative...
View ArticleArmy Vet Battling Private Insurer for Coverage She Feels is Due
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on June 13, 2011 “The American Psychiatric Association has a very specific and rigid stance against psychiatrists rendering diagnoses on patients they have not examined.”...
View ArticleBlackwater Gets ‘Too Big to Fail’, Hires AIG Castoff
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on June 13, 2011 Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. by Spencer...
View ArticleInjured Blackwater Xe war contractor approved for treatment by AIG
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on June 16, 2011 Bravo to Kevin Graman for exposing AIG’s dangerous “risk management” practices. We too hope it is not too late for Jennifer as it has been for so many who...
View ArticleHow the Defense Base Act became defanged: The Seventh Circle of Bureaucratic...
Congress passed the Defense Base Act to protect workers and their families. The rulemakers wrote the rules to protect the insurance companies and the contract companies. “Laws that we thought we had...
View ArticleBlown up in Iraq Eight Years Ago Today, Still getting Screwed Over by CNA
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on July 7, 2011 DBA CNA Anniversary July 7, 2003 At the risk of sounding repetitious: Merlin Clark Blown up in Iraq Eight Years Ago Today Still getting screwed over by CNA
View ArticleDementia Risk Linked to Combat Head Injury, Study Says
Posted by defensebaseactcomp on July 18, 2011 Defense Base Act Insurance Companies CNA and AIG have been extremely negligent in denying Contractors injured in bomb blasts diagnoses and treatment of...
View ArticleProposed Defense Base Act changes included in 2014 Budget Proposal
From Robert Ceniceros at Business Insurance April 11, 2013 Proposed Defense Base Act changes The president’s proposal also would replace the current Defense Base Act program with a governmentwide...
View ArticleIraq War Civilian Contractor Casualty Not Counted: Tim Eysselinck
Go tell the Americans Stranger Passing by That here obedient to their laws I lie April 23 2004 Ronco Consulting chose to play down the suicide and blame it on his wife and son. They sent their HR...
View ArticleJust how far the Employer/Carrier will go to deny a DBA Claim
NO HEART, NO CLAIM !! Callous Indifference From Military Contractor in Iraq, Family Says April 29, 2013 HOUSTON (CN) – A military contractor in Iraq shipped a worker’s body home in pieces, without...
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