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PRESS RELEASE: 9/8 Press Conference-Insurance Commissioner

Candidate Padilla To Call For Prosecution Of Workers
Compensation Judge Dugan

Press Release

Insurance Commissioner Candidate Dina Padilla from Peace
and Freedom Party To Report Corrupt Workers Compensation
Judge
At California Fraud Assessment Commission Meeting September
8, 2010 9:45 AM

California Fraud Division Headquarters
9342 Tech Center Drive, Suite 100
Sacramento, California 95826
(916) 854-5760

Dina Padilla, a candidate for California Insurance
Commissioner from Peace and Freedom Party will be having a
press conference along with family members of injured
workers and health and safety advocates at the California
Fraud Assessment Commission FAC. This state commission
dispenses more than $29 million a year to California
District Attorneys to prosecute workers compensation fraud.
Candidate Padilla has been in the forefront of those
fighting against the cost shifting by the insurance
industry and employers included self-insured employers like
Kaiser and Safeway Inc. who have refused to
properly take care of their injured workers. On September
8, 2010, Padilla will be joined by Sandi Trend, mother of
injured Agraquest biotech worker David Bell. Trend has
filed charges that Judge WCAB Judge Suzanne F. Dugan
voted to reject an appeal on her son's workers compensation
claim while her husband Michael t. Dugan had a financial
relationship with biotech company Agraquest owned by Pam
Marrone. The District Attorneys of Yolo County and
Sacramento refuse to prosecute this workers compensation
fraud despite extensive evidence.
_www.biotechawareness.com/_
(http://www.biotechawareness.com/)

Also joining her will be Dr. Jack Thrasher who has
challenged the corporate rules of ACOEM imbedded in
California Workers Compensation law that prevent workers
injured by mold at work from getting medical coverage.
Padilla charged that "ACOEM is propagating mickey mouse
science manipulated by the insurance industry, employers
and the drug companies to prevent workers getting
healthcare when injured by mold on the job."
_www.drthrasher.org_ (http://www.drthrasher.org)

Padilla has also charged that the Insurance Commissioner
Steve Poizner and previous Insurance Commissioners have
refused to prosecute insurance companies and self insured
employers who refuse to pay for injured workers and
instead force these workers to go onto California State
Disability Insurance SDI and Social Security to get their
serious injuries taken care of. The taxpayers of California
are paying for this cost-shifting.

Padilla will be raising the case of Tim Hack and the
injured workers at Toyota of Poway who have been
contaminated by mold by their owners and Stuart
Lichter, the developer of the Downey toxic dump site in the
Los Angeles area. These workers have made complaints to the
San Diego DA against their employer for Workers
Compensation Fraud but have not heard back.
_http://moldtruth.wordpress.com/_

These employers and developers have refused to take care of
injured workers who have had serious health problems as a
result of their drive for profits. Padilla charges that the
District Attorneys and California Attorney General Jerry
Brown have refused to prosecute this massive cost shifting
scam as a result of deregulation.

Padilla said "It is time to protect the working people of
California and prosecute those insurance companies and
employers who have conspired to violate the laws protecting
workers injured on the job. If elected I will clean
up the systemic corruption in the workers compensation
system and also work to eliminate the insurance industry in
healthcare."

Padilla has also been joined by Green Party candidate for
California Insurance Commissioner Bill Balderson that Dave
Jones and all candidates be able to debate together the
issues for the people of California. Democratic
Party candidate Dave Jones has refused to respond to
requests to participate in full debates with all ballot
qualified candidates. He also has refused to
respond to Toyota Of Poway workers who have tried to enlist
his support.

For further information go to:
_www.padilla4insurancecommissioner.com_

(916)725-2673

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