Unique Illinois work injuries- rhabdomyolysis attorney insight
When I started my statewide network of Illinois workers' compensation lawyers, one of the motivations for that was that I've seen too many attorneys who take cases that they shouldn't handle. Sometimes it happens with lawyers that don't usually handle work injuries. Other times it happens with work comp attorneys who end up taking a case that is in an area of the state they don't usually cover or involves an injury they know nothing about.
The other day I was called by a man who got a disease called rhabdomyolysis. I've been doing this for a long time, but I've never seen this. Basically it's an injury to muscle tissue that leads to a breakdown causing the damaged tissue to go in to the blood stream. In this case, the caller hurt his arm and the damaged tissue put him in the hospital for four days.
Now I could have taken the case, but I've never dealt with that injury before. While I know how to handle a case, I don't know about that injury and would have learned as I went. I could probably do a good job, but this guy was much better off with me referring him to an attorney that I know has handled a similar case. I asked around my network, found someone and sent him on his way. He will achieve success and while it might not have been in my best interest to do that, it's certainly in the client's best interest. And that is what helping a client should be all about.
Before you hire an attorney, especially if you have a unique injury, make sure your lawyer has done a similar case before.
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