Carrie Joanna Feit

"Regardless of my clients’ illness, whether it be degenerative disc disorder, deep vein thrombosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, GERD/IBS-related disorders, chemical sensitivity, Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, pain is usually the barrier to returning to work. As pain does not show up on an x-ray, insurance carriers unfairly attack such claims by questioning my clients’ impaired functionality due to the alleged lack of ‘objective medical evidence.’”

“The other barrier to employment is the unpredictability of my clients’ symptoms. Whether the condition is a pain syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, cardiac related, Meniere’s Disease, HIV/AIDS, bipolar disorder or Major Depression, individuals that suffer from medical issues cannot usually predict when they will be debilitated by their symptoms. When the insurance carriers unfairly point to surveillance video in which they captured my client at the supermarket on one particular day, they fail to recognize that such outing does not reflect consistent functionality on which my client can rely to get through a work week, or the likelihood that my client took several types of medication just to make that outing on that particular day.”