{"id":1404,"date":"2015-09-25T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2017-07-17T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:40:52","slug":"suretys-liability-for-denied-claims-medical-benefits-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/suretys-liability-for-denied-claims-medical-benefits-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Surety\u2019s Liability For Denied Claims \u2013 Medical Benefits Part: 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">By Fred Lewis and George Casper<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">As we have touched on in previous entries, there are times when an injured worker\u2019s claim for worker\u2019s compensation benefits is denied by the employer\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation insurance company (hereafter referred to as &#8220;surety&#8221;). Many injured employees (hereafter referred to as &#8220;claimants&#8221;) wonder why the surety would deny their claim because the facts all seem to point to the acceptance to the claim.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">As with many things in life, the surety\u2019s decision to deny most compensation claims boils down to one word: money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/suretys-liability-for-denied-claims-medical-benefits-part-1\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Surety\u2019s Liability For Denied Claims \u2013 Medical Benefits Part: 1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred Lewis and George Casper As we have touched on in previous entries, there are times when an injured worker\u2019s claim for worker\u2019s compensation benefits is denied by the employer\u2019s workers\u2019 compensation insurance company (hereafter referred to as &#8220;surety&#8221;). Many injured employees (hereafter referred to as &#8220;claimants&#8221;) wonder why the surety would deny their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workers-comp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surety\u2019s Liability For Denied Claims \u2013 Medical Benefits Part: 1 | Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Fred Lewis and George Casper As we have touched on in previous entries, there are times when an injured worker\u2019s claim for worker\u2019s compensation &#8212; September 25, 2015\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/suretys-liability-for-denied-claims-medical-benefits-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Surety\u2019s Liability For Denied Claims \u2013 Medical Benefits Part: 1 | Racine Olson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Fred Lewis and George Casper As we have touched on in previous entries, there are times when an injured worker\u2019s claim for worker\u2019s compensation &#8212; 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