Disability and personal injury lawyers take note: “Pain is a squirrely thing.” Thus writes Elisabeth Rosenthal in her excellent recent piece published in The Atlantic, “Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10.” (read more)
Got this from a client recently and could only sympathize with her. Describing and documenting pain is a perennial problem for disability and personal injury claimants and, in turn, the attorneys representing them. (read more)
Plaintiff lawyers know all too well those gut-churning, heart-pounding moments before hearings or trials. Even in the (supposedly) non-adversarial Social Security disability hearings I used to do, there’s no shortage of fear and nerves.
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Personal injury and disability attorneys know how difficult it can be to document the severity of our clients' pain. Most of the time, our clients can't communicate their pain either: whether to us or to their doctors. (read more)
