It's the beauty of having a good lawyer. Once you go to court and "prove" that you are disabled and you are granted money, or whatever it is you're going for- you can live life as a scam artist, because you can't go to court for the same thing twice.

Okay here we go: (thanks Penny for enlinkening me) Once you are initially injured, or proven to be injured permanently by the court's approved doctor, or by a doctor assigned by your Worker's Comp. attorney (They do what is called an IME, Independent Medical Examination), that is it. They can challenge you on your initial injury but after those papers are signed you can go bungee jumping every day, video tape it, and send it to WC and laugh it off. However... they can challenge it if you are believed to be getting significantly more than what you should be, like double your salary and what not.

The answers you've gotten so far are not entirely accurate. I don't know what Penny means by "you can't go to court for the same thing twice." Of course you can. A person cannot be tried for the same crime twice, but criminal trials and civil cases are very different things. In civil matters, such as adjudicating disability, you may go to court any number of times. If you're suing for a large sum or ongoing payments, either side might appeal the initial court award. There are two kinds of disability payments available through Workers Compensation or regular disability policies. One kind is a lump-sum settlement. If you get that, and then get better, it doesn't matter -- your lump sum is yours to keep. Because it is a settlement and not a trial award, it cannot be appealed. It could only be taken away if criminal fraud had taken place, such as faking medical records, or lying under oath. The other kind of disability payment is a continuing disability payment, usually paid weekly, biweekly, or monthly. If you get better while you are on that, the payments stop and you return to work. This is the same whether it is disability insurance through a private company, or through a government agency. Some policies require the disabled person to be incapable of ANY work. Others pay off even if the disabled person could do SOME jobs, but not their job they had when they got hurt. Most people don't know what their own disability insurance says about this, and have no way to know what their neighbors' insurance policies say. Unless the accident took place as part of his employment, he's not on Workers Compensation. There's a lot about his situation you don't know. Gossip mills are rarely accurate, especially since people may choose to give false answers to questions they consider nobody's business. For instance, many people do not care to discuss mental health issues or fatal diagnoses with their neighbors. They might say "back injury" just to end the questioning. Saying "back injury" doesn't give us much to go on. Even if true, it might be something that has to do with his ability to stand and doesn't affect his ability to sit on a bike or kayak. It may be that he was told to do these types of exercise as part of his rehab (although mountain biking for a back injury isn't what I'd expect! I'm not surprised you wonder about this.) He may not be getting ongoing payments. He may have invested a lump-sum settlement wisely and no longer needs to work, but chooses not to reveal that to his neighbors. Or he may be committing insurance fraud. Without knowing the name of the company providing his ongoing payments (if any), there's not much you can do about it. It's not like tax fraud, where an anonymous person can call the IRS with suspicions.

The mailman is quite an athlete!

Maybe he won a lottery or was given a huge inheritance.

Very likely he's a lazy, thieving sack o' shit!

Maybe they're from before he was disabled? Or maybe his wife uses them and just hasn't taken his off the racks?

Haha his wife could tie some rope around his bike and she rides it and takes him for a free ride... same with the kayacks Hes probs just a lazy shit

We have a neighbor also doing this. We can clearly see him most days outside working on differnt odds and ends. My favorite is when we see him standing on the front bumper of his box truck bending in and he is there for hours. He also "claims" to have a back injury. It's not hard to get someone (a dr) to vouch for you, at least in this neck of the woods, there are lots of scum around here. I love that we work our butts off, and they don't do anything and reep the benefits!

It's amazing what you have time to do when you're not working and still getting paid, isn't it? I'd feel 100% better too;)

There are a lot of people deemed "disabled" but do stuff that most normal people don't everyday... I have an aunt who's disabled because she can't sleep at night... she spent 18 months in Iraq a few years ago, when the war first started... her husband makes $600,000/year as well... they don't need the disability money, but they get it any way... and she takes care of two kids, a house and a side reality business.... My grandma is on disability, and does a bunch of stuff during the day... has a job waiting for her if/when she gets better... my grandpa (58?, i think) has been in early retirement for a few years, because he quit his job and never really went to get another... but she also has dialysis every other day for kidney failure... As for his wife's car... maybe she has two bikes she likes to ride, or maybe she goes with a friend... and kayaking isn't that hard if you're not vigorous... getting them up and down is easy if you get someone to help (which he obviously can, if he has two, and they're used at same time... Physical Activity can be a great stress reliever as well as a great recovery helper... Depending on what he does, sitting around typing on the computer, could potentially hurt his back and put more strain on it than kayaking and/or biking could ever do...