Hey welcome to the site

Yeah Im frantically trying to find advice from people who know more about the system. I do have an attorney and he is suppose to be a good one in the area, but talking to him he dont really give me anyting to go on. Since the Individual Medical Examiner basically said I am at my Maximum Medical Improvement Workers comp is requesting that my temporary total disability be ended, which via the 3 specialist and dr's I see that is false. Though the injury happend 18 months ago, it took 8 months to get my neck injuries added to my claim, and I have gotten some treatment for my c6/c7 displacment. I have had therapy which was unsuccesful, all they did was traction therapy which inflammed the problems worse, then I had 2 epidural injections, which the first didnt take, and the second workedd fro around 2 moths. But it didnt completely take the pain away actually it didnt take any pain away it just gave me a little more mobility in my neck, but that is gone now. Then about 2 months ago after having to get denied and then final have a hearing infront of the ohio industrial comminsion officer, they approved and allowed an additional allowance on my claim, it is for my lower back and it is lumbar discongenic disease. My lower back is what is dibilitating! we have a 18 month old son who was 3 months old when the injury happend and this really restricts me being able to play with my son. On top of those 2 allowances I also have another 8 on my claim from lumbar injuries and rotator injuries but most of which are minor though they still hurt. Now I know a guy who had a lumbar strain on a BWC claim and he got like 18,000 in a settlement just for that 1 allowance, I have 6 of those plus the 2 major injuries. Iam told surgery is a possability but at the same time my dr says since i am only 30 the risk of nerve damage may not be worth having the surgery. So anyway workers comp wants to stop paying me but there is still no improvemnet on my injuries bc WC keeps denying treatment. The lumbar discongenic disease that was just allowed a few months back, my dr requested a couple month worth of physical therapy on it and they denied it stating that I had already recieved treatment for this injury, but the last physical therapy I did was last november, so that is 7 months prior to the discongenic disease being added to my claim. Any prior to my injury I was making between $52,000 and $56,000 a year. My first 3 months of temporary total disability pay at 72% should of been $1068 a week but in the state of Ohio the max they will pay was $816 a week so that is what I made. After my first 3 months it lowered to 66.6% of your previous years salary and now I have been getting pair $655 a week, which I have been arguing is not correct since that only translate into $45,552 and I had made $53,600 the 56 weeks prior to my injry, but anyway. I am trying to find someone who can tell me what I can expect if I file for a settlement, whether it is pain and suffering or whatever. When I talked to my WC case worker after they said they wanted to stop paying me she told me I should look into Welfare, which if that is what I will ahve to resort to is the biggest crime ever. To go from being able to comfortable support your family, and live a very good life, to being injured at no fault to myslef 100% my employers fault and now I may have to loose my home and live in low income housing. It is an absolute crime that I they are trying help increase their margins by cutting me out and destroying my life! Anyway anyone who can shed any light on what kind of money I could possible expect from a settlement would help me out greatly. The stress this is causing me and my fiance is sickening, we dont know if we need to let our cars get repod and loose our home or if we will actually be able to get a settlement that will keep us afloat for the time being. BTW I am in school getting an IT degree, I still have a year and a half until I will obtain my degree but since I will never be able to do physical labor again I went back to school. PLEASE SOMEONE help!