No matter where you turn it seems that it is a battle to get benefits

Posted on March 23, 2006 by David Austin

The Commonwealth of Virginia has an injury program that is designed to reduce the amount of lawsuits that come from birth injuries. The basic idea is that you provide a system that agrees to pay for treatment of the birth injury and in return you as the injured person (or parent) give up the right to sue the doctor or the hospital.

In Virginia the fund that provides this treatment is seriously underfunded to the tune of $100 million or so.

Critics of this fund claim that the fund administrators are denying benefits because of the shortage of money. This link is to a series of articles about one family's battle to get benefits for their child.

Source: Times Dispatch

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