Mr. Diaz said he had blown the remains of his workers' compensation check on losers.

I signed a release, giving up my salvage rights when I accepted the compensation check.

He missed a year of work and had to make ends meet with a weekly compensation check of $265.

But her worker's compensation check was late, she said, and her child support check, mailed from Trenton, took 10 days to arrive.

This left 13 former Lilco officers who could have stayed to work at Marketspan if they had returned their compensation checks.

If compensation checks were paid out quickly, he said, "a lot of people would be gone long before July."

"Every time my monthly compensation check came in, I was on a jet," he said.

But he said he was concerned by reports that it could take another six months for his clients to receive their compensation checks.

He said his brother was still getting his workman's compensation checks and Social Security checks for his children.

He was still getting compensation checks.