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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: So. E. Coast
Posts: 10
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: So. E. Coast
Posts: 10
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In my case I think I got lucky and found an attorney who was no stranger to TOS because he had several other cases involving it. He also was very good at explaining things "in english" and on time.
One thing is for sure, the process takes forever. It's like a game wc likes to play and meantime we're stuck in limbo waiting for the end result.
My attorney told me of an IME who had over 200 TOS cases sent to him and all of them he only would admit to a possibility of TOS for about 12. No wonder wc kept sending people to him!
I was sent to several of their docs and non of them had treated TOS or were specialist on it. I was surprised they didn't send me to dermatologist to give their opinion on TOS!
By the 3rd doc I learned to shut my mouth and not try to explain TOS since these docs thought TOS was at worse a case of severe whiplash.
The lowest of the lowest was them claiming I was an addict but my records clearly showed I didn't even use all of my monthly prescription of pain meds and my pain doc had notes as to how he insisted I take all of them all the time.
One thing my attorney did good was make sure that the docs testifying for me were specialists experience in TOS because they would always bury the opinions of their IME's. Also, a good report from a vocational rehabilitation expert supports your claim of being unable to fill any job in the market due to your limitations.
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