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My Response to Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
Kent,
WA, U.S.A.
March
11, 2000
State
of Washington / Department of Labor and Industries
Attn:
Steve Kazda, Supervisor
PO
BOX 44000 Olympia WA 98504-4000
Subject:
Foot Injury, NEGATIVE Claim # W473841
Claimant:
The Boeing Company c/o
Crawford and Company
Respondent:
Amrik S. Kang
Copy
to the Attending Physician: Not sent by the claimant
Work
Place Location: Not reported by the claimant
Dear
Mr. Kazda,
Claim: The Boeing Company filed a Negative Claim stating that
the employee's foot condition is not work related even though the employee
himself never filed such a claim not knowing if it was or not.
Employee's
Response:
The
employee is herewith rejecting Boeing's funny claim as unfounded due to the following
reasons:
- The Boeing Company is hiding a material fact about employee's work location. The employee has been working for over nine years in a Boeing building with concrete floor. The employee had to do the running around or be standing on that floor for most of the day during his tenure. After doing that job for more than eight and half years, the employee developed a foot condition that was diagnosed as BURSITIS by his attending doctor. The reporting of the work location address and the description of conditions surrounding that location could have made the cause of employee's foot condition very obvious. That is precisely the reason the work location address was not reported by the Crawford and Company: an entity that does all the dirty work for Boeing and is known as 'The Crawford Gang' amongst the Boeing employees even though I call them 'The Crawford Club' just for the sake of being a little more civil.
- The
Boeing company filed this Negative Claim that was originated out of their sense
of guilt otherwise there was no need for them to file such a claim. In the
last nine years, every time the employee had cold, headache, upset stomach,
runny nose, itchy eyes and a countless other things including but not
limited to his cat being sick, the Boeing Company
never saw the need to go to the Department of Labor and Industries to file a
negative claim stating that it was not the company's fault.
Why in the world the Boeing Company has to do it this
time? The answer is simple. They have a sense of guilt. The company doctors knew something that
the employee was not aware of. Let
me give you a hypothetical example. One
evening you go home after work to find out that your home is broken into and
completely ransacked. You had no idea who did it.
So, you name no suspects. Life
goes on. A few days later, an IRS officer shows up at the police
station, uninvited and out of nowhere filing a claim (just like Boeing did in
this case) stating that he did not do it. Will that raise some suspicion in your
mind that may be that IRS officer was the burglar otherwise why did he see the
need to file such a claim at the police station even though nobody asked him to
do it?
- Why
was Dr. Michael Mishalanie, the employee's attending physician not provided
with a copy? The simple answer is: because the doctor may conclude the
employee's condition to be work related stopping the Crawford Club
from snatching another bottle of milk from my baby's mouth and another piece
of bread from my child's hand fulfilling their official duty just like they
tried to do it the last time by diverting my medical bills towards
collection until I decided to stop
them by literally pulling their teeth.
- The
Boeing doctors have elected not to put their signatures on this negative
claim as none of them wanted to make a fool of him. They did something else
though. After the employee
reported his condition, a score of Boeing doctors, nurses and other
officials developed such a condition overnight including employee's
supervisor. The supervisor's
story was real interesting. One
morning, she woke up with this condition and kept crying for the next
several weeks until with some miracle, she woke up again but this time
totally cured without any treatment whatsoever.
What is the implication of this fairy tale?
Well ! You already know the answer that the employee's condition
cannot be work related as almost everybody else has it too and got it even
without being subjected to similar conditions.
The Closing Arguments: {a} The Boeing doctors must sign their findings and provide a
copy of those to the employee and his attending physician on record.
The court of Public Opinion is not going to accept a simple statement
coming from Boeing as the word of God simply because it is coming from a big
bully on the block. As the Boeing
Company filed this negative claim, it is incumbent upon the Boeing doctors to
substantiate their THESIS with medical documentation and not with the jugglery of
their attorneys at the Crawford Club.
{b} The employee has lived in four countries namely
India, Germany, Canada and the United States on three different continents and
has dealt with hundreds of bureaucrats throughout his life time. The employee
found each and every bureaucrat he came across in every country to be literally
insane and has suffered heavily at the hands of those bureaucrats. In spite of all that suffering, this Boeing employee promises to keep
an open mind and not prejudge the Department of Labor and Industries of the
state of Washington even though
he has heard a ton of horror stories about people
getting nightmares and developing ulcers after dealing with the bureaucracy surrounding this
department.
Sincerely,
_______________________________________
Amrik S. Kang
Note: This
letter was printed, signed and mailed to the Department of labor and industries
via certified mail.