Bad Faith in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, judges are not sympathetic with the injured worker. They are however, sympathetic with insurance companies throughout the state, especially Pennsylvania's own State Workers Insurance Fund. Why? Because worker compensation referee's are not elected, they are appointed. Requirements for this position are as follows:
1. Experience prosecuting injured workers.
2. Experience prosecuting injured workers.
3. Experience prosecuting injured workers.

This is NOT an impartial referee.

Prosecuting attorneys working for insurance companies are a self-righteous group who are paid over $100.00 per hour to destroy the working class. Insurance company attorneys and judges subscribe to the theory that injured workers are pain-free, enjoy their disabilities, and are thankful for permanently damaging their body so the employer can make his cash.

After the worker is injured, vocational training should be the next step in finding a suitable new occupation. A favorite of SWIF is Vocational Rehabilitation Services which, coincindentally, are located in every city that there's a SWIF office.

This is a warning!

Vocational Rehabilitation Services are retained by the insurance company to get the injured worker off of benefits, they are not interested in helping you retrain so that you can feel like a productive member of society. This means that even if you were a skilled tradesman before the injury, VRS will humiliate you by sending you to minimim wage jobs such as McDonalds or Pizza Hut. Their goal is to get you back in the workforce at any cost so the insurance company can stop or modify your benefits.

Not only has the injured worker suffered physical damage from his injury, but also psychological. Physical in the sense that he can no longer function in a full capacity which manifests psychologically into feelings of inadequacy. Sending a skilled tradesman to a menial job is just another subversive tactic to damage his moral and self-esteem. They are banking on this and hoping that you refuse the job so they can claim "bad faith" and then either terminate, suspend or modify your benefits.

"Bad Faith" is an interesting term. Is it not bad faith for the rehabilitation service to send you to McDonalds if you had previously been a professional in your field? The injured worker has sacrificed his body so that his employer could make money. Is the human body just a tool, like a crescent wrench, to be cast aside when it breaks? This is slaveholder mentality.

Also, insurance companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in propaganda to create the illusion that workers are taking advantage of them. You've probably seen television shows depicting "injured" workers lifting weights and engaging in all sorts of strenuous activity. Did you ever wonder where these videos came from?

ACTORS!

Actors hired by insurance companies to pretend they are injured workers scamming the system!

And this is not "Bad Faith"?