Octomom Cashes $40,000 Check For Workplace Injury from California mental hospital
It’s so strange how Octomom could give birth to eight kids while having a back injury, isn’t it? That’s what a lot of people are wondering after Nadya recently cashed a $40,000 check from her previous employer, a California mental hospital. She got the big check because she reportedly won a settlement from workers’ compensation claim dating back to 1999. She was employed as a psychiatric technician at the time and was injured in a riot at the facility.
Suleman will only bank some $23,000 of the settlement proceeds, however, after deductions for legal fees and prior permanent disability payments.
What’s even worse is the fact that Nadya previously collected an incredible $170,000 in disability payments for chronic back pain from 2003 and 2008 apparently arising from the same injury, according to the LA Times. She also filed a second claim after she was rear-ended in 2001 on her way home from a doctor’s appointment, according to People.com.
Suleman also collected various forms of welfare after the birth of the octuplets but said in November that she is no longer on public assistance.
If you haven’t heard about this before, I’m sure a lot of you will be angry at this. How do you even get almost $200,000 for a back injury? Absolutely ridiculous!
July 13th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
This makes me really mad…I do have a legitimate back injury from an on the job accident I do not qualify for any type of assistaance from the state I am not going to recive any type of disability payments from the state and if I am lucky I will recive a settlement from my employer that will keep a roof over my 2 children’s heads until I can find any job. I mean any job…any one???
July 13th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
This makes me really mad…I do have a legitimate back injury from an on the job accident I do not qualify for any type of assistaance from the state I am not going to recive any type of disability payments from the state and if I am lucky I will recive a settlement from my employer that will keep a roof over my 2 children’s heads until I can find a job. I mean any job…any one???
July 24th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
So what if she had a back injury and put in a claim. She didn’t process the claim herself. The Insurance Company processed it and awarded her the money. Her doctor and the Insurance Company’s doctor must have okayed the claim. Get over it. You people are spiteful and hateful. Leave the woman alone.
She had her fertilized eggs implanted, she never knew or believed all the eggs would become viable. She expected 1 or 2 would be viable. When they all became viable, what would you have her do? kill six or seven of them?
People should never have such venom and hate for other people until they have walked a mile in their shoes.
This woman made a mistake, but her doctor is even more to blame for putting that many fertilized eggs in her.
Give her a break. Leave her alone.
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:30 pm
My dad suffersfrom severe knee and joint pain after being hit by a car while on the job (he was a Security Guard) and was awarded over $100,000 for the claim. So it is quite possible that someone could be awarded a great sum of money depending on the injury and the events that took place.