By Watchdog2009 at Citysearch May 25, 2012
The folks at Sedgwick are the worst I have ever dealt with. If you have the unfortunate experience of having to deal with them, make sure you have plenty of cash reserves, because it will take months before you see a dime. They are going to ask for vague information from your medical providers and do so in triplicate. If you are not prepared to pay your medical coverage out of pocket until they get done running you through the ringer. You will probably lose your coverage, which then you lose your disability coverage because you cant send them their stacks and stacks of follow-up medical documents they demand, because you cant afford to go to the doctor. Totally horrendous. I had my medical coverage lapse 5 times and they wondered why my recovery took so long. ...read more
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