Impact of Federal Guidelines for Fibromyalgia on Comp Debatable

Workers across the country who are diagnosed with fibromyalgia have an opportunity to seek benefits for their condition under the Social Security Administration's new guidelines recognizing the impairment as medically determinable, but the issue remains highly contested in the workers' compensation arena.Louisiana defense attorney Denis Juge of Juge, Napolitano, Guilbeau, Ruli, Frieman & Whiteley remarked on Tuesday that the SSA "seems to be opening the floodgates of recognizing disability claims" in that area of law. He predicted that "you're going to have a lot of p...