I’m sorry but I can’t put this bizarre story (re: folks lopping off limbs for insurance money) into my own words.
This article is brief:
And there are others that mostly repeat the same information with little expansion.
What is/ was wrong with these/ those people?!?!
I don’t even need to click your link to know where and what: Vernon, Florida. Errol Morris told the world way back in 1981.
Anybody on the message board live the vicinity?
I live in Orlando, try to stay away from the panhandle.
A friend’s husband lost the last joint of a pinkie finger years ago. He recieved $5,000 for this injury.
His wife (my friend) brings this up when she is drunk, calling him a sissy/coward/baby for refusing to go back to the trough one more time.
Here’s something that happened back when I was a shop steward in a machine shop in New York State. It was before OSHA regulations, and risks were a little higher than now. One of the employees lost a finger in a cutting machine.
In New York State the workers’ compensation is based on a schedule of loss of use, and the maximum award for the loss of a finger was 2/3 of your weekly pay for a certain number of weeks. It’s currently 46 weeks pay for an index finger.
Subsequently in an unrelated accident the employee lost his hand. I did say it was prior to OSHA, right? The schedule for this injury would have been 2/3 of his weekly pay for 244 weeks, but the company deducted 46 weeks, because as they said; “We already paid for that finger once”.