Topic: GOOD LAWYER LIST: SSDI, LTD, WC updated 7-22-09 !!
bettyg
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This is something that I'm just starting to do, collect names/addresses/phone nos. of GOOD SSDI, LTC, WORKER'S COMP LAWYERS TO SHARE WITH LYME PATIENTS!
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE, PLEASE TYPE IT IN BELOW; THANK YOU!
NEW JERSEY
From Azure Wish:
Mine was awesome. He took care of everything. I never even had to go to his office. If he needed to know something he just called. Which was really good for me cuz going anywhere was a big problem. To this day I wouldn`t know him if I fell over him
Here is his info:
Bross and Group, PA. Members of PA and NJ bars
David S. Bross 102 Browning Lane Building C-1 Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 phone for cherry hill, nj (856)795 8880 phone for egg harbor, NJ (609) 804 1070
If you give his name to anyone and they would like to ask me how he was, tell them to go to www.lymenet.org and
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up; one of the member's husband contacted me last night; requested a little more info and then asked him to post on here saving me time redoing the steps.
i hope you will share your info IF IT'S A GOOD, LL or lyme friendly lawyer knowledgeable about:
SSDI, long-term disability, or workers comp....
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bettyg
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jon, sent this to me by PM!
My name is Jon Marmo
I am "savebabe"'s husband and I am a matrimonial and family law attorney on Long Island .
Although I do NOT practice in the medical law field, I am very familiar with Lyme disease and the associated tick diseases.
I am an associate at the Law Office of Bryan L. Salamone P.C. (631) 424-3597.
Please feel free to list me as a "Lyme friendly" attorney.
Best wishes, Jon Marmo, Esq.
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I was already approved for SSD, based on the combination of fibromyalgia, depression, and a rare birth defect called Poland's Syndrome, so this might sound a little selfish of me but I'm going to ask anyway.
Since I finally got a positive diagnosis of Lyme Disease, by IGeneX, a couple weeks ago, on Dec. 13th, '06, I'd like to know if I have any chance of trying to sue the hospital ER, and possibly some doctors I saw in the following weeks, 3 and a half years ago.
The "rash" didn't look like a bulls-eye, but it DID look very serious and painful. If I hadn't been in so much pain, I might have been thinking clearly enough to DEMAND a culture and blood tests.
It all started on May 17th, '03, and I lived in Virginia at the time. The ER visit was on Saturday, May 17th, '03. They literally did NOTHING more than cover the red sore (on my breast) with Neosporin and a gauze bandage, then give me Rx's for Keflex and Percocet to get me through until Monday.
About 3 weeks later, I finally got my regular doc to do some blood tests, and I've been tested many times since then. Everything always came up negative.
By June '03, I had a diagnosis of fibro, and in July I moved back "home" to PA where I live now.
I know there's a statute of limitations of 2 years in VA but there's a "discovery" exception which I think will apply because I continued to be treated for the wrong diagnosis.
Does anyone know a good lawyer I could talk to about suing, at least, the hospital? I'll probably need someone who practices in VA and not necessarily someone in the area where I lived. Doctors and lawyers seem to stick together there.
I'm 46 now and I was in the process of finally getting my college degree when this happened. I pretty much lost everything and had to start over. My income is MUCH MUCH lower than it would be if I had finished college and been able to continue working.
Any advice or help would be appreciated. I may never get better and even if I do, with long-term, indefinite, treatment, I've lost years of my life. I also feel like I've lost my "mind" regarding memory and concentration. That's second only to the daily pain I still live with.
Thanks, Dianne
Posts: 8 | From northwestern PA | Registered: Jun 2006
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bettyg
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aniek or any of the other lawyers who have joined us, could you give dianne some advise please? thanks! this question comes up a lot here on board.
since i'm not familiar with newbie dianne, i'm pasting this from another post describing more details for anyone with LAWYER experience to give her some advise ... which i'm unable to! Have no experience/knowledge on this question! ********************************
posted 18-06-2006 10:08 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YES, but it didn't look like a bullseye. In fact, I read one post so I could copy it and change it slightly to describe what mine looked like....."the rash, at the singular bite-site, covered the entire outer side of my right breast, and was 4-6" in width. It was hot and painful, same intensity as a mild to moderate sunburn...the skin subsequently died and sloughed off."
The doctors "guessed" that it was a possible bite from a brown recluse spider but I've always doubted that. I took pictures of it often for about 6 months, with my digital camera, from beginning to end, as it healed and hardened. It was eventually debrided surgically because there was so much dead tissue. I still have the pictures.
Also, I had a miserable outbreak of hives about a month or so before the "bite" showed up. I don't know if the two are connected but it's possible. (I realized recently, long after writing this original post, that the hives outbreak was about 9 months before the bite so it probably wasn't related.)
I just joined the group and I'm very interested in finding a doctor to help me. I'm on SS Disability due to a fibromyalgia diagnosis, along with the depression diagnosis which I'm sure helped me get approved. I was also born with a birth defect called Poland's Syndrome and I've had about 30 reconstructive plastic surgeries, most of which have been failures due to infections.
By the way, I've been taking an antibiotic for almost 3 weeks for a sinus infection and I've felt a little bit better than usual while on the antibiotic. After everything I've read today, I'm convinced I have chronic Lyme's. Thanks to everyone who read this long post. Dianne in PA **************
dianne posted 14-12-2006 07:56 PM
Rash - Yes, but not a bulls-eye.
In fact, it was a huge red sore spot on my breast that looked more like a burn, raw and painful, and was referred to by one doc as an "abcess" and by another as "cellulitis".
The skin "died" over a period of 5 to 6 months and had to be surgically debrided. They also thought it was most likely a spider bite so I was only treated short-term with abx and all Lyme tests done over the past 3 and a half years were negative, until I got tested by IGeneX.
Until yesterday, I had a diagnosis of fibro. Now I'm an official Lymie.
Oops, sorry, this was supposed to be a simple Yes or No answer. *************
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Aniek
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Dianne,
I'm in law school. So I can't give legal advice and I don't have the full knowledge to answer your questions.
But I do know that most medical malpractice attorneys do not charge in advance. They usually only get paid if there is a settlement or award in the plaintiff's (patient's) favor.
Because of that, most attorneys won't take a case they don't think is winnable. So, sometimes interviewing attorneys is a way you can find out if you have a chance.
I do know one problem is that the defendants will say you don't have Lyme disease. Igenex is not universally accepted by the medical community. So they would most likely argue that you do not have Lyme disease and your current symptoms are completely unrelated to the rash.
You also need to show that the standard of care would have been to test you for Lyme and that, if they did test you, it would have shown Lyme. The negative tests in the following weeks would be used as evidence that it wouldn't have made a difference if they did run a test. And since it was not a traditional EM rash, then I'm not sure that the standard of care is to do a Lyme test.
One of the big problems Lyme patients have is that the standard of care in the medical community is lacking. Lyme is not adequately diagnosed and treated. Doctors are often not negligent, because other doctors aren't doing it.
-------------------- "When there is pain, there are no words." - Toni Morrison Posts: 4711 | From Washington, DC | Registered: Mar 2004
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bettyg
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aniek, thank you for stopping by and replying here!
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Thanks for the reply and, by the way, both of those other responses you found were ones posted by me, one in June when I first joined the group and the other one just a couple weeks ago, the day after I got the IGeneX results.
And Aniek,
I'm afraid your response is probably what I'll hear from every lawyer I talk to. Why do doctors even need malpractice insurance if they have the law on their side?
This isn't the first time I've been screwed over by doctors so maybe I should just put my efforts into writing a book about all their lies.
I'm so fed up by things I've learned in the last 10-20 years, especially in the last 3. The rich get richer (doctors and drug companies) and the sick get sicker!
Good night all. Thanks again for the responses.
Posts: 8 | From northwestern PA | Registered: Jun 2006
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kam
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Looking for workmen's comp attorney for CA
And possibly attorney to help me get CALPERS Industrial Disability approved.
It appears workmen's comp needs to be approved first to help with CALPERS case.
Posts: 15927 | From Became too sick to work or do household chores in 2001. | Registered: Dec 2002
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Tracy9
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I need a lawyer for ssdI in Ct, northeastern area, hartford ok.
13 years Lyme & Co.; Small Fiber Neuropathy; Myasthenia Gravis, Adrenal Insufficiency. On chemo for 2 1/2 years as experimental treatment for MG. Posts: 4480 | From Northeastern Connecticut | Registered: Jun 2005
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bettyg
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hi Tracy,
what I've received for response are ALL LISTED ABOVE!
may I suggest this instead?
there are also NON-lawyers like our own member, CONNIEMC; they receive same amount as lawyers but can only go up to AD MIN LAW JUDGE HEARINGS, not to federal court heartings after appeals court decides. so when you look for a SSDI LAWYER, MAKE SURE THEY CAN REPRESENT YOU IN FEDERAL COURT if it comes to that ok!
also, check my lengthy newbie package I sent you; last 25 pages all deal with ssdi.
SIGN UP FOR WEB SITE "DISINISSUES" ... it's free! there are 2-3 lawyers who respond on occasion. read my comments!!
Please go to SUPPORT GROUPS, left-hand side column by state. CALL the nearest group leader for advise. Do NOT email; many are too sick to reply; thanks!
People seeking doctors in certain states might be able to get help from their state online information and support group. Over 1200 people belong to these state groups. Many of the groups are small but quite a few have 20 or more people on them.
Type your state name and lyme as one word, e.g. newyorklyme
For SC, SD, ND and WY, put a hyphen between the statename and lyme, e.g. northdakota-lyme
The groups are moderated so you have to apply, and we don't allow doctor names, but once on the group, you can ask for doctors in a certain area and ask people to email you privately.
network on the yahoo group for your state; find out WHICH LAWYERS got lymies approved for SSDI $$$ .... good luck!
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bettyg
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our member trishee was sent this information below and also his letter stated this,
"My letter does include helping me or "any Lyme disease awareness or advocacy organization" help in submitting disability claims. *************************************
He mentions 15 years experience before starting his own practice a year ago."
Offers his help with lyme disease claims. ************************************************
13 years Lyme & Co.; Small Fiber Neuropathy; Myasthenia Gravis, Adrenal Insufficiency. On chemo for 2 1/2 years as experimental treatment for MG. Posts: 4480 | From Northeastern Connecticut | Registered: Jun 2005
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