When Insurer Won't Share Info, Just Request a Swimming Pool

When a new chief workers' compensation judge takes charge next month, claimants' attorneys in West Virginia are hoping he can address a gap in the rules that has forced lawyers to take extreme measures just to see insurance carriers' denial orders. One Charleston lawyer routinely resorts to filing requests for a swimming pool to be built for an injured worker, simply to get the attention of the carrier. “I have no intention of actually requesting a swimming pool, but that is so outlandish that it forces the insurance carrier to respond,” said claimants' attorney B...