Simply makes me ill...
Apparently, if you suffer catostrophic or serious injuries requiring medical care due in part to negligence on the part of another party, and you receive settlement money for such a situation, your work can sue you and claim your settlement money, to recoup the money they spent via your health insurance, on your medical care. Not all companies are doing this, but to me it's absolutely obscene, particularly in the case of catestrophic injuries requiring years of intense, expensive care. I mean really- I don't doubt that paying these expenses can be less than pleasant for a company, and especially if the injury to the employee was caused by another individual, they would want to receive compensation like anyone else, but WTF- they can take the compesation FROM THE INJURED PERSON? How is that fair, or logical?! It defies human decency. I am too messed up on cough syrup to even argue about this logically but !@)$*%)&#! it's just wrong.