Get a new attorney, ASAP.
If there is sufficient documentation for SSDI then one would think that there is sufficient documentation for WC. Your lawyer sounds like a creep. IME docs who work for insurance companies just about always lie, since they are being paid by the other side. And we can only hope that WC judges are aware of who the docs are that will usually screw the patient and who is ethical (at least in RI, which is a really small state like Delaware). But your lawyer is supposed to be on YOUR side. Not WC.
It sounds like you are in a terrible situation and that you have to fix it right away before you risk losing your SSDI income also.
WC is brutal, so sorry that you going through this. It's been almost 5 years for me, the worst part about my RSD, other than the pain, has been WC! I never realized how evil the system was until I got sick...
Good luck, Sandy
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Originally Posted by alt1268
Long story short, I was hurt May, 2009 at work, had over 5 fractures right ankle. Plates and screws put in. Downhill from day one. Plates and screws removed March, 2010. Put on rollabout February, 2011. Saw atty.'s dr. March, 2011 rated me at 65% disabled with RSD, (3 dr. to give RSD dx) Saw Workers comp. dr. for 3rd visit in July, 2011 and he says he disagrees with dx. but admits there is nerve involvement, increased sensitivity, right foot colder then left and limited movement. (dah) Says I can work fulltime in a modified position. May need vocational rehab.
The end of August, Workers comp. filled a petition to terminate my weekly wages, stating I could work fulltime. Since then my atty. wants me to start putting in 3 job applications a week. I told him, I still have my job, plus I filled for ssd. He sent the wc attorney asking if my employer would take me back. On Thursday am he calls and tells me he got a letter back stating I was terminated and I needed to start looking, starting on Friday.
Friday am I called my employer to ask if I could get paid my unused vacation and sick, being that I was terminated, the director of HR says You weren't terminated, who told you that. I explained then called the lawyer back and requested a copy of the letter be faxed. I am still waiting and got my ssd approval notice today.
anita
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