Editor,

In response to the letter from Merle Mosley about Brickstreet and Worker’s Comp. I must agree with him. This is the worst system ever put on the working people by our state government.

I waited for a full year for a decision from the law judge that ruled in my favor, and got a letter the same day from Brickstreet saying they have appealed it to a revised board. What good are the law judges if their ruling doesn’t mean anything to Worker’s Comp?

My son was injured working on the great unfinished road job when a loader dropped a huge rock on his rock truck, crushing the canopy and cab down on him, knocking him unconscious and hurting his neck and back on January 12, 2006.

Worker’s Comp has sent him to Logan, Madison, Gilbert, Huntington and Charleston for every test known to mankind. Now he has been held up over a month on his check and medication because these doctors that make thousands off these cases take their time sending reports to Brickstreet and they take their time approving every dollar and pill.

When you try to call Brickstreet, they first want you to push a button if you want to speak in American, then they put you on hold to listen to the worst fiddle music, hoping you can’t stand it any longer and hang up.

That’s not the best part though...when you go their fancy office in Charleston, you are stopped at the door by a West Virginia State Trooper who tells you can’t come in without an appointment, which you could not get past the fiddle music to make one over the phone. Why are W.Va. State Troopers working for a private insurance company in the first place?

I can see why Brickstreet needs police protection the way they screw working people around when they need it. This is another example of how the people are controlled by the state government.

For an example, this week the ATV bill was defeated which prohibited riding children and others as passengers, which might have saved a few kids lives. This bill did not pass mainly because Senator Earl Tomblin said he likes to haul his wife around on his ATV on the weekends. You would think that the money this Tomblin family makes off W.Va. taxpayers his old lady could buy her own little four-wheeler (only in West Virginia).

James D. Kilgore

Davin