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Worker who claimed injury went fishing for trouble

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Worker who claimed injury went fishing for trouble

An Australian finance department employee who went on a fishing adventure with friends instead got caught in what his own doctor called a “considerable discrepancy” related to his workplace injury claim.

Glenn Atkinson reportedly said an upper limb disability left him unable to do anything other than stay at home and watch television, according to the Canberra Times. The man claimed the injury had been caused by holding heavy files. 

But private investigators with hidden cameras reportedly watched Mr. Atkinson during his fishing trip, where he also managed to play a poker machine, help his friends lift a kayak onto a trailer, pick up a cooler filled with beer and ice and carry a shovel a short distance.

An orthopedic surgeon, after watching the video, wrote that the footage "indicated very graphically that the allegations made by Mr. Atkinson to me about his supposed upper limb disability were greatly exaggerated and frankly untruthful,” according to the article.

A tribunal later tossed out Mr. Atkinson's injury claim, but stopped short of finding that he lied to his doctors or exaggerated the severity of his condition, the article states.

 

 

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