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Ms woeppel who herself suffered in the workers compensation system is eloquent in her condemnation of the workers compensation system that is much more about enriching the insurance companies and protecting employers from responsibility for the workers killed and maimed in their businesses. Depraved indifference represents over five years of research and interviews it lays bare a workers compensation system that cavalierly exposes workers to severe injury toxic exposure and death while throwing the major cost unto the family and the taxpayer without fear of lawsuit prosecution or even public outcry it is a call to action. Depraved indifference the workers compensation system represents over five years of research and interviews the last chapter explores where we can go from here to create a system of fairness and justice a system that works that puts the responsibility and accountability on the employer to make the workplace safe for workers. The title refers to a workers compensation system in which worker deaths often cost an employer far less than correcting a safety health hazard in the workplace and a system in which the employer is virtually immune from prosecution for the depraved indifference that results in severe injury toxic exposure or death