CHRONIC CONDITION
Peripheral neuropathy is a condition in which damaged nerves cause pain, weakness, and numbness in the affected area of the body.
POSSIBLE IMPACTS
While it is most common in the hands and feet, it can occur in any nerves outside of the brain or spine. In addition to impacting your quality of life, it can also impact you on the job.
WORK LIMITATIONS
Symptoms like muscle weakness, extreme sensitivity, and sharp, jabbing pains could make routine job-related tasks impossible, and a long-term disability claim might be your only option.
Success With Peripheral Neuropathy LTD Cases
We understand how peripheral neuropathy affects your work. We helped a client maintain disability benefits due to peripheral neuropathy after undergoing aggressive cancer treatment. Though our client was no longer disabled due to cancer, the treatment was so aggressive that it resulted in severe peripheral neuropathy, making the client unable to work as an executive.
The insurer had a difficult time understanding that although the claim began due to cancer, it was the damage to nerves done by the treatment that left the client permanently disabled, despite successfully beating cancer.
One of the challenges associated with peripheral neuropathy concerns the ability to document it properly because patients are often impacted differently depending on which nerves are damaged. Peripheral neuropathy disability claims are frequently denied by insurers for failure to provide supporting evidence of the severity of the condition.
Documentation required by insurers often includes medical records detailing your symptoms and how they have progressed. They may also require a firm diagnosis from your doctor and results from diagnostic testing, records regarding treatments and follow-up care, and statements from yourself, your co-workers, and your family regarding the impacts peripheral neuropathy has on your life.
If your peripheral neuropathy is making it difficult to work, don’t wait to contact an attorney.
Contact a Chicago Disability Attorney and Request a Consultation
In peripheral neuropathy disability claims, showing strong evidence that your symptoms are intense enough to prevent you from working can be critical to getting your claim approved.
Bartolic Law has helped many people obtain LTD benefits for peripheral neuropathy, and we may be able to help you get the benefits you deserve, too. We make getting the help you need easy and convenient. To get your free case evaluation by a Chicago long-term disability lawyer, complete this questionnaire, and one of our representatives will contact you. Or book a consultation online.
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