The Filutowski Law Firm, PLLC

Some clients suffer from fibromyalgia, starting before they retained me to represent them on their personal injury claim (car accident, slip and fall, on-the-job injury, etc).  Fibromyalgia, with its unknown origin, is prevalent among men and women later in life.  Symptoms consist of varying degrees of body and joint pain and tenderness.  Fibromyalgia continues to perplex physicians.   Pain and symptom relief is mainly achieved through FDA-approved drugs.  However, the health care community is exploring alternative therapy solutions.

Since it is near impossible to specifically point to a cause or trigger point for fibromyalgia, insurance companies systematically dispute any treatment for pain and tenderness following a collision or accident involving a client with pre-existing fibromyalgia.  Therefore, it will help your insurance claim if you have proper medical documentation before the collision or accident that discusses the location, intensity and nature of the fibromyalgia.  This information will improve your position with the insurance company  when you request to apportion a specific amount of your aches, pain and suffering to the personal injury claim.