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JMM
January 19, 2023 at 9:58 pmDon’t know what kind of experiences everyone else has had, but dealing with this lawyer had been nothing but a headache. Referred through a friend for my family member, who has a severe hernia in several areas of their spine. The first time they submitted paperwork and everything we didn’t hear from her for MONTHS. At the time I was only part time and they were out of work, so without any contact (no updates via email OR phone), so after so long they had no choice but to return to work as we had bills we needed to pay. Then she finally reached out to us a little while after, and got annoyed because ‘since [you] went back to work, the claim got denied’…..
So we’re just suppose to not pay our rent and bills? Or not be able to afford necessities because our rent alone would drain an entirety of my paycheck, when both us were earning at a biweekly rate??? But fine, whatever. Then it was more silence and vague answers in the year plus long interim; fast forward and they get worse- now same issue in the neck and they have to go on short term disability. Which we only find out AFTER that their job won’t pay it, because their boss put them at less than 30hrs (position was suppose to be full time but found out its only part time) and they don’t have the expensive and not as well covered health insurance.
So we decided to try again, as they now have all these new notes from doctors, specialists, new xrays/cat scans- you name it. We start looking around because in this whole time they’ve gotten hardly ANY news, consultation or otherwise, from this lawyer. Come to find out at the last minute that she submitted an appeal WITHOUT informing us first and WITHOUT asking what move we wanted to make next. We have no choice but to go through with staying with her, despite her apparent past apathy and lack of communication. Then today while discussing with said family member she has the AUDACITY to say that “oh, we probably won’t win” because of said lack of hours and them going back to work during the first processing.
1) If that’s what you really thought, why appeal it without discussing options with us then? It’s a waste of not only our time but your time as well, no??
2) Even with all that they sent to her she had the nerve to say “Oh, well I told you earlier that you wouldn’t win”. Yeah- in regards to the FIRST time-not this.
Tldr: She’s been nothing but apathetic, rude, and has shown through the way she treated my family member and the almost 700 PAGES OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE PROVING THAT MY FAMILY MEMBER IS ONLY GOING TO GET WORST WITH TIME that they provided to her, that she does not care about our case or my family member. This isn’t about money- this is their health on the line going forward. She has hardly communicated with us and when she does it’s always been negative. We have no choice but to pull through, but if we do lose (whether to social securities strict stipulations or her not putting any effort in to fight for our case), we’ll be closing the case and taking our chances with someone else.
Don’t know how you’re able to get someone approved that has less severe/debilitating issues than them, yet our case is an issue because God fucking forbid we need to keep a roof over our heads and the lights on. Fucking unreal….