Success With Disability Claims for Cervical Radiculopathy

Success with Long-Term Disability Claims Involving Cervical Radiculopathy

Bartolic Law has helped countless clients battling Cervical Radiculopathy get long-term disability insurance benefits paid. Unlike Lumbar Radiculopathy, Cervical Radiculopathy most impacts the client’s neck and upper extremities. In one case, our client suffered from Cervical Radiculopathy for years. The client worked in sales management, and the insurer denied the claim because it said there should be no impact on the client’s ability to sit and stand, and change positions as needed, to do sedentary work. We worked with the client’s doctors to give explanations on how the Cervical Radiculopathy impacted the client’s neck mobility and upper extremity usage for keyboarding and computer use.

We also had the client attend a functional capacity evaluation specific to using the client’s arms and hands and focused on computer work. We also demonstrated that the medication the client took to manage the pain, in the required doses to alleviate symptoms, caused impairing side effects. Often individuals with Cervical Radiculopathy must resort to narcotic pain medications or other powerful drugs that cause considerable sedation and drowsiness throughout the day. We also demonstrated how the client’s pain was so severe, it interfered with the client being able to even fall asleep on almost a daily basis. With our determination to never give up on our client, we were able to get the client’s claim paid in full.