County Needs Better Control of Disability Claims

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The twisted adage No good deed goes unpunished is supported by a prime example in Los Angeles County. The county s supervisors ordered an investigation last week into the widespread occurrence of so-called chief s disease among the county s firefighters.

From 2001 to 2003, 74 percent of firefighters who retired received disability pensions. (By comparison, only 21 percent of retirees from the Los Angeles Fire Department went out on disability.) An average of

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County Needs Better Control of Disability Claims

85 percent of county firefighters who got disability retirements had claimed a disabling injury a year earlier. Over the same period, 63 percen...

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