I was driving in a company truck and while on the freeway and I came to a complete stop. A lady behind me fell asleep and rear ended me at 60+ mph while again, I was at a complete stop. I was 25 years old when it happened and now I am 28 and I still have back pain due to a bulging disc, and pinched... nerves. Workers' comp has been less than cooperative which is usually the case and that is why you get an attorney to fight for you. Well this guy lost any fight he might have had years ago. It's a large firm that takes tons of cases since workers' comp cases are limited to 10-15% for attorney fees, so they make up for the low amount they can charge you by doing bulk. They take tons of cases and don't give a sh*t about a single one of them.
After signing with him in 2015, workers' compensation offered a settlement to try to get rid of me quick and cheap which I turned down because I have actual back problems that I want fixed, I don't care about the money. He told me he would inform them that I was not accepting their offer and we would move forward with treatment. After this, I didn't get any more doctors appointments for MONTHS and I repeatedly emailed him to ask what's going on and I keep getting bs'd.
August of 2016 comes up and he informs me there is a hearing to fight to get me more treatment which he claimed went well and that he got the approval for more epidurals as I have already had one at this point BEFORE SIGNING WITH HIM. Just want to make it clear that I got the epidural WITHOUT help from this lawyer as it was BEFORE I even signed up with him. So I get excited that I will get more epidurals and hopefully get back to normal life and work, nope. Months start to go by and I am repeatedly emailing him with little to no response. Finally he says they gave up on me and there is nothing he can do. Well today I found out that the hearing wasn't about him fighting for more epidurals for me, but the defense asked for that hearing because they NEVER got a response about their settlement offer. So this lawyer never even responded to their settlement offer, and then LIED to me about the matter of this hearing.
I call the insurance myself and bypassed the lawyer and guess what, I get an appointment with a doctor without his help. I get in there almost a year after NO appointments due to the laziness and incompetence of Ronald Feenberg, and now workers' comp isn't approving any treatment because it has been stagnant for a year and they think it's BS at this point. Then I ask the lawyer for help and big shock, he does nothing.
Feruary of 2017 rolls around, and I have been constantly emailing asking for help since 2015. Finally after ridiculous amounts of me begging for the lawyer (who gets a cut of any settlement I get) to help me, he gets fed up with me and tells me to find someone else to represent me. Now I have to drive in and pick up all my ORIGINAL papers (he was supposed to make copies of everything and mail me my originals which he never did) from him which he left at the front desk since I apparently am not worth his time. So after wasting well over a year of my time and making my case look bad, now he drops me as a client.
On top of all of this I also found out today that neither Ronald Feenberg or anyone else at this stable of an office turned in the paperwork to drop me as a client so he is still listed as my representation. This means any letters anyone from workers' comp or the insurance company has been going to his office for the last few months and he NEVER informed me or forwarded me any of my letters. So he has basically stolen and thrown out months worth of important letters for me......
This firm is trash, and Ronald Feenberg should truly consider the move to Florida.....
There is so much more to this story but this should be more than enough.