Workers Comp Help
Iron Worker Injured After Falling From A Bridge
In September 2000, I fell 40 feet off a bridge as a union Iron Worker. I sustained several severe injuries and to this day (1-2003). I have not received proper medical care or legal help. I have ligament damage and loss of feeling in one leg, still have hip damage where it was not repaired correctly.
I have been to several different Doctors both from work comp and my own. My attorney did absolutely nothing. He talked me into settling and keeping the medical open so I could have surgery on my knee.
Now my attorney is saying that I have to go to court and that a work comp doctor is the only one that can perform the surgery. The insurance company had given me the run around the whole time they will not let a respectable doctor or a specialist do the surgery.
The insurance company also told me I had to be put on light duty. For an Ironworker there is no light duty.
All I want and need is to have surgery so that I would be able to work like a normal person again and no one not even the insurance seems to want to do anything about it. I have also done everything they have asked me to do, but they still don't want to help me.