Injured After Work Meeting, Amputee Fights Claim Denial
ROUND ROCK — After spending most of her professional career handling insurance claims and managing personnel issues for employers, 73-year-old Jane Hays got to learn the ins and outs of the Texas workers’ compensation system.
Never did she imagine she’d one day make a work injury claim herself.
Never in her wildest dreams did she see herself fighting a denial.
But when she had a head-on collision on her way home to Temple from a work meeting outside Houston this summer, Hays’ world was literally and figuratively turned upside down. After her Jeep Grand Cherokee flipped and came to a stop roof-side down on State Highway 105 near Navasota, she was stuck for 45 minutes, her legs trapped under her car’s crushed front end, before first responders could cut her out.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/22/amputee-fights-work-injury-denial/
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