05/02/2024
Austin manufacturing had secret arrangements with Heartland regional medical center.
If you were hurt on the job, you nor anyone not listed as the plants safety responders were allowed to call 911. What they would do was call heartland for an ambulance if needed. If no ambulance required they would then drive you over themselves. The hospital would ask for your insurance info for records purposes only. This was their part of the fraud. The hospital would bill full amount allowed to insurance and all deductible or co-pays were sent to Aisin. Now you may think this doesn't seem wrong, however by doing this, it allowed Aisin to avoid having to pay workers compensation, and the most and the deepest part of this was not reporting to OSHA, both federal and state levels, and the property casualty underwriters whom of which covered the plant its self similar to homeowners but in a much higher and level and at a greater financial expense.
In turn heartland performed random drug tests for Aisin and the test form states that you work for heartland regional medical center and that the test was done at their work care location on W. DeYoung behind Burger King in Marion.
Aisin AMI avoided paying for the drug tests because Heartland was allowed to bill insurance for said Near miss incidents which made them thousands all while Aisin avoided paying employees for injuries they sustained while working.
By both of their efforts and continued blatant insurance fraud, employees were injured seriously. When a maintenance member gets his hand caught in a run and glass press that nearly crushed it but luckily caused lacerations that required stitches, this was deamed a near miss. This allowed Aisin to keep it's safety record intact at the expense of team members some of which were terminated. Those who failed the random test were terminated without being informed they had the right under state law to withing 2 weeks of their random test, they could have a 2nd test performed and at the team members own expense and Aisin would have to honor those test results. So anyone who was terminated has the right to file wrongful termination suite.
If they choose to do so, it should be filed in federal court as a labor dispute and not on the state level or in the county of Williamson. I urge anyone who was or knows anyone who was fired from random testing up to 2021 to submit their name so it can have more substantial bearing and show AMI that there is strength in numbers and what you think you have hidden will always come out, much like the last 3 Sexual harassment cover up attempts failed.
