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Corprate Greed, Forced upgrade! Number Portability not quite there.

Prelude:
I’ve moved a couple times over the last few years. It is a real pain in the ass having to deal with upcalling and harassing the Adjuster, and my Doctors on a very regular basis, and make sure I get a call back. Just trying to keep a line of communication open, can become insane. Now throw in a new number, for them to forget or take 8 months to process(When I had to change my sub of attorney to myself, it took WC 9 months to process after they recived it, and they managed to send my private psychological and medical reports to a lawyer whom, I fired for the same issue of my privacy. Ya, whole story I have yet to write about), and this once simple way we communicated breaks down, means more hassle for me to fix. As you can see this ends up being worse than a change of address with the Post Office.

Sooo, I need to keep my phone number, and where I live now, I’m roaming, and with each time I use my phone, I am lining some corporate suit’s pockets with cash.

My mobile contract expires on December 26th. I’d be stupid to pay a $200 early cancelation fee to bail out a month early, with ATT, now Cingular.

I decided to check out the local mobile phone outfit here. They informed me, that due to the size of their company, and since number portability isn’t completely phased in yet here, I’d lose my number if I went with them.

So to keep my number, I have to signup under a Cingular Nation Plan.

My current phone service isn’t GSM, which is what Cingular now only provides to customers.

I would rather not have to get a new phone, but doesn’t seem to be an option for me.

So I get to choose between paying for a new phone outright, or be forced into a long contract.

I do not want to get screwed into a long term National service plan!

But to keep my 714 number, it’s the only easy option I have.

Before having to move I was going to change my plan to Cingular anyway.

But now that it’s being forced upon me, I hate it.

follow up from Mr Jones

Just had another nice conversation with Mr Jones. Not his real name. He’s called me a few times now. This time I was fortunate to learn some more information about my fellow injured worker. Apparently he has been having the majority of the same issues that I had in my dealings with Ms. Allread. It’s not right for people who provide an invaluable service to double talk, and insist on a single mode of communication, especially email. I myself am quite computer savy, but for others I would liken the experience of dealing with a lawyer via email to that of sending out messages in old Corona bottles into the ocean. He mentioned that he himself has had to do much of the fighting for his case to be accepted. That is such a shame. What’s the purpose of having a lawyer then? Oh yea to send you to their butchers. Why you ask? So that when the case is good and settled the two friendly sets of people get to easily negociate the bill, and take a little off the top for themselves. It all just seems like a big scam to me. I just want to get healed. I could care less about a settlement check.

Another unfortunate issue he has had to deal with now is a failed lower back surgery, leaving him with more complaints and issues than before. I have yet to ever personally hear of a successful back surgery. The procedures I have gone through have left me no better, and from what I can tell no worse. Back surgery is a major thing, which I feel should be left for the extreme event. It puts a lot of stress on one’s mind, and body, and the support structure that one has, if any. Of course the insurance company or lawyers could care less if your losing your mind stuck in a bed unable to do anything for the next few weeks after a surgery. I didn’t have a fusion. But after my neucleoplasty I was pretty jacked up for 4 weeks. I frankly couldn’t and don’t wish to imagine anything of a more severe nature. I wish doctors wouldn’t push or cooierce people into uneeded risky back surgery, damn butchers. How many Doctors/Surgeons have you met or heard of having a back surgery? Me none. Why because they know it’s most likely a waste of time.

Another email, that makes me doubt her competence.

Note how she still thinks that I have a fax. And also note her grammatical errors. Clearly a sign of haste, rushing, and possibly anger.

She also thinks that my Father, has the ability to sigh the sub of attorney, when I am the one who needs to. Shouldn’t she know this, she is the lawyer and all?

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Please sign and return to me my fax or mail. I will send your file out certified mail to your address once I received the signed copy.

I will also put a hard copy of the substitution of attorney in the mail to day in the event that you cannot open the form.

thank you

Laurie K. Allread

Attorney at Law

Subject:

sub of attorney

From:

LKAESQUIRE@aol.com

Date:

Sat, 15 May 2004 18:56:00 EDT

To:

BFriedman@IKON.com

Please print and sign the sub of attorney and return it to me by fax, I will complete the rest–just sign your name where indicated.

There is nothing going on in the case. There will be no further communication.

Laurie K. Allread

Attorney at Law

2700 North Main St Ste 510

Santa Ana Ca 92705

(714) 866 2155

(714) 866 2152 fax

Press.

Whelp, the lawyer managed to push another one of my buttons.

Next thing you know out comes another couple hundred words, and this time, I decided to CC it to the OC Register, and a list of email addresses, that Laurie had given me, in an email where she disregarded my privacy, and the privacy of her clients.

http://px51.blogspot.com/2004/05/my-workers-compensation-nightmare.html

My Workers Compensation Nightmare; Laurie K. Allread, ruins another WC Case.

Ms Allread, Ms. Allread’s Clients, or Other Acquaintances, and OC Register Editors,

I do not know what you impression of the Workers Compensation System is. Or Laurie Allread is, but thanks to her I now am forced to Handle my Workers Compensation Case myself, or risk ruining it futher by finding another lawyer who will without a doubt screw up my case like she did.

Do any of you have problems in your dealings with the Workers Compensation System? Do you feel that she is not helping to make matters any better?

All I have gotten from her is an unfriendly unhelpful attitude. I even called her on her attitude problem, and she up and decides to drop my case, without any real valid reason. Her reason you ask? “I cannot seem to make you happy.” The solution to this, Communication. Its quite simple. As a person who provides a service to those who desperately need _your_ help, you need to be asking “How you can I make you happy.”

I mean because isn’t it your _JOB_ to _help_ me with what I need in regards to forwarding information, and the handling of my case?

The more I think of it, I’m glad you decided to drop my case, all you have done till now is waste my time, mis-handle my case, send me to another Shady Doctor who tells the me the patient something he’s been requesting for well over 6months, then sends him off to be tortured again by Pain Management doctors. Something that has already happened once in my case. But you wouldn’t know that, you haven’t read anything about my case prior to my only visit with you. You have managed to make my situation go from bad, to worse these past 3 months, and have possibly affected the future outcome of my case.

You apparently havent listened to or heard a single word I have said since we first met. You’ve had some kind of problem with me since you became my lawyer that first day we met. You even gave me a hard time, because I was not the one who found you. My father, found you, highly recomended through his College friends. (Obviously none of them were previous clients.) Now this would have led me to believe you were a good lawyer, but instead you’ve shown me otherwise, through your lack of respect for me.

Ms Allread you are in fact withholding information from me.

My Dad spoke with the adjuster, who said that Psych has been authorized for me for quite some time, that you had already known of this. All that was needed was for me to see a Psych, whom I repeatedly ask you for a referral to. The problem, you didn’t do anything, if you would have taken time listen to me, or to properly review my case, you would have seem that I’ve been seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist, since the beginning of my case.

Also I had requested that Medical Report from Dr Previtte, be copied and mailed to me, long before you offered to fax it over to my Father. Long before I had even had the idea to have him help me more with my case by dealing with you.

It is _your_ fault for not complying to my simple requests. How hard is it to photocopy something and slap 2 stamps on it? You seem to think that everyone in the world has a fax machine, and you cannot remember that I do not have one.

Signed,

-r0b friedman, injured worker.

Read more about my Strife.

http://px51.blogspot.com/

Rob Friedman

4251 Alta Vista Court

Oceanside, CA 92057

714-642-3931

PS. If your wondering how I got your email addresses, Laurie gave them to me.

LKAESQUIRE@aol.com wrote:

> I faxed the report to your father as requested. Once you sign the sub and return it to me I will send you your entire file. If you want to speed up the process you can obtain a sub on the Internet, sign it and fax it to me.

>

> I ma not keeping anything from you. I will send your file ONLY to you once I get the sub signed. That is the process in accordance with the law.

>

> I just rec’d the report and I sent to your father as requested. This the problem when you have two people giving instructions on a case. Anyway, I am not going to justify my conduct or argue with you nay further

>

> I will discontinue any further communication with you - You should get the sub Tuesday, you can sign it and return it to me by fax and the file will go out within 5 days from that time.

>

> Laurie K. Allread

> Attorney at Law

> 2700 North Main St Ste 510

> Santa Ana Ca 92705

> (714) 866 2155

> (714) 866 2152 fax

monday

well, i got woken up at 830 this morning to be told my appt with Dick my lawyer got canceled.
but wait it gets better.
i’m doing my exercises and my i hear my sis saying shes home, i almost forgot about her today. ;p
so she is here my mood brightens a lil bit.
1 rolls around so i decide to make some appts, because i figure most dr’s offices are back from lunch by now.
i call up dr cohen the dr i want to begin seeing for my back.
he wont take my request for an appt, so my insurance adjuster has to call him.
i call dick back, let Cheryl know.
i then decided to call and make my appt with my new medical group.
well their office is closing in 3 weeks, so i then had to call up Blue Cross, and get my medical group changed.
after that called up the new place in FV, made my appt for my prescription refills. and I’m feeling sok.
now I’m gonna go to the beach with my sis and neg, and try to make the best of today.
-r

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