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| Brian Wiklendt tackles paperwork for DBA, Longshore clients. |
Brian understands the roller coaster of emotions that clients experience while pursuing DBA cases.
PTSD or Constrictive Bronciolitis
One of the challeges clients face is in finding a lawyer who will take on a PTSD or a Constrictive Bronchiolitis case.Garfinkel Schwartz handles many kinds of PTSD and Constrictive Bronchiolitis cases.
Working with longshoremen and the Longshore Act medical care and compensation rights cases Brian works predominantly with people who have been severely injured and who are very sick.
The ability to pursue a case takes the support of family, friends and an attorney who will come to you and visit you where you're sick, injured and recovering. The phone is the first step, but Brian will fly to any client to meet with them anywhere in the United States.
If you're not feeling up to company or prefer not to have an in-person visit a meeting over Skype can be arranged. There are many ways to meet with Brian from your home to the Maitland office or the Cocoa Beach office. We can easily setup a video conference and you can choose to appear or not appear visually. We'll do whatever you're comfortable with because it's your case and your challenges that we're going to work with.
Compassion for Injured, Sick Clients
Brian has respect and a special compassion for the many people who call him and explain the frustration with legal red tape that they've encountered over the years going after DBA cases alone without an attorney. When they finally give in and call Garfinkel Schwartz the experience can be life changing. Working with a law firm means that Brian will do all the heavy lifting and information gathering.You as a client can focus on healing, recovery, rehabilitation. Brian will tackle the courts, hearings,
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| Constrictive Bronchiolitis can occur from burn pit inhalation. |
Clients with chronic lung illnesses and problems breathing after having worked overseas as a DoD military contractor may have inhaled dangerous poisons and particles.
There are many DoD civilian military contractors who are coming home with mystery illnesses of the lungs that are being called COPD.
However, there are many civilian contractors and veterans who with constant medical research and tests find out that what they actually have is called Constrictive Bronchiolitis. Constrictive Bronchiolitis is an incurable health danger that comes from breathing and inhaling smoke from burn pits.
Brian talks with people who have been disappointed in the inability to find help for DBA claims as DoD civilian military contractors who have PTSD. Garfinkel Schwartz handles PTSD cases including those PTSD cases that are beyond the one year statute of limitations.
Armed with the law, Brian provides intensive reviews of all medical and client case files looking for and compiling the supporting details with the firm’s resources. Together the Garfinkel Schwartz team builds strong cases to support clients’ claims to medical rights that they deserve.
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| DBA clients have served overseas on U.S. Government bases. |
When you call, you may only want to get answers to basic benefits questions. You may be calling because you want to vet the firm and find out just how much the legal team has done for Longshoremen and civilian contractors.
No matter what you need to find out, Brian will be there as your Defense Base Act law compensation and Longshore and Act law guide. He can help to find out what you should be getting paid based on the laws vs. what you are being paid by an insurer--one of the first issues addressed with clients.
Brian talks with clients who come in locally with a longshore claim from the Titusville, Cocoa Beach or Port Canaveral Florida area. Brian receives calls from half way around the world with a Defense Base Act claim from Thailand, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and Asia.
No matter how you contact him, Brian will help you along and is listening to what you have been through and pays careful attention to everything that you say.
Finding Out What "Makes" a DBA or Longshore Case
Brian will only compile information to help build cases for clients who decide to move forward with Garfinkel Schwartz. If you need to know how to get started with a claim or just want to ask questions about options that are available to you when you’re injured, Brian will be able to help get you the answers you need.The most important part of what Brian will do for you is to walk you through the process, helping you with paperwork and finding out how you’re feeling and how the injury or illness is affecting your life.
Brian explains that a lot of insurance companies try to be sneaky and will try to underpay employers’ incredibly loyal workers. A very thorough interview will be one of the first things that he will do when a client begins contact. The next step is to get as much background information as you can provide. Brian will work to find out whether or not you’re being paid correctly.
When Brian has completed the interview, you'll go through an intake process with paralegal Doreen Cabral's help. She will gather all your information, review your files, read all your background information. She works with Brian who thoroughly reviews all aspects of your case.
Brian will get legal and medical research completed by legal and medical researcher and legal assitant Bennett Garfinkel so that he’s familiar with your case and the issues and problems that you’ve had to tackle.
Brian said he talks with people who call and say “I know that Mr. Schwartz used to handle Longshore cases or I know someone who hired Mr. Schwartz.” I tell them we’re still here, but we’re a different law firm now. We still handle Defense Base Act cases and we still handle Longshore and Harbor Work Act cases. Now it’s a new law firm, Garfinkel Schwartz, P.A., the next generation taking care of clients one family at a time."
Together the Garfinkel Schwartz team will provide you help, one family at a time.
