Tag Archives: Worker’s Rights


Can the Famous Stanford Prison Experiment Explain Arbitrary Benefit Denial by Insurance Adjusters?

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A Stanford student playing the part of a guard

Over the years I’ve seen a handful of workers’ compensation adjusters who seem to forget that injured employees are real people who have families and are going through a difficult time, physically and psychologically, because of a workplace accident.

Adjusters have complete authority over people who are subject to their control. In 1971, a Stanford psychology professor wanted to answer the question: What happens if you take good people and give some of them absolute power over others?

What happens if you take good people and give some of them absolute power over others?

He set up an experiment to see how Stanford students would behave if they suddenly found themselves in a prison, either as guards or as prisoners. The basement of the psychology building was transformed into a prison, and students who volunteered for the experiment were randomly assigned as a prisoner or a guard.

The results were horrifying Continue reading »

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North Carolina Proposes to Reduce Worker Benefits & Abolish Privacy Rights

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There are two bills in the legislature (HB 709 and SB 544) that will reduce workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers, abolish their rights to physician-patient privacy and make it easier for insurance companies to cut off benefits. Although there is a

146 young women died because the fire doors were locked

possibility that representatives for employers and those for employees will reach a compromise in the near future, in order to understand the significance of these changes it is helpful to understand some history and how the Workers’ Compensation Act works.

I teach workers’ compensation law at N.C. Central University, and on the first day of class Continue reading »

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