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How do you Prepare for a Compulsory Medical Examination?
Go to How do you Prepare for a Compulsory Medical Examination?First, you need to set an appointment with your attorney to go over your case. All attorneys should take the initiative and make an appointment to meet with their client the day before a Compulsory Medical Examination. Your attorney should go through your medical records, your pain complaints, go over your deposition testimony and your…
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What is a Compulsory Medical Examination and Why it’s Important to Your Case?
Go to What is a Compulsory Medical Examination and Why it’s Important to Your Case?Compulsory Medical Examinations are deceivingly called Independent Medical Examinations by defense attorneys. You should know there is nothing independent about these examinations. Compulsory Medical Examinations are provided under laws of civil procedure 1.280. It allows the defense attorney to hire a doctor to do a physical examination of an injured party, review medical records, review…
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What is Mediation and How Can it Effect Your Car Accident Case
Go to What is Mediation and How Can it Effect Your Car Accident CaseMediation is where both sides will agree on an independent third party mediator and go to his or her office. Both sides, the injured plaintiff and the defendant will then talk about the pluses and minuses of their cases and then separate into two different rooms. The mediator will try to get each side to…
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How You Appear, Speak, Act at a Deposition and How that Can Affect Your Case
Go to How You Appear, Speak, Act at a Deposition and How that Can Affect Your CaseHow you look and dress is very important for a deposition and may require some preparation. Everyone should dress comfortably and appropriately for a deposition. I would not suggest for a man to wear a suit or a woman to wear uncomfortable clothing to a deposition if they did not dress like this in their…
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Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury Case
Go to Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury CaseAn area you will need to prepare for before deposition is to know and understand the details of your injuries and medical treatment, including when you first experienced pain and to what areas of your body. For example, did you experience back or neck pain at the scene, did you chose to go to the…
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How to Prepare for a Deposition
Go to How to Prepare for a DepositionThere are several ways in which you should prepare for a deposition. One way is to be sure you understand the details of your accident including how the accident took place. You should be able to answer not just how the accident happened but where the accident occurred, the date and time, what happened when…
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What is a Deposition?
Go to What is a Deposition?Depositions are conducted fairly early into your case and are the part of every type of civil case when a person or the witness has to go to a court reporter’s office, is sworn in under oath and has to answer questions such as what happened to them, how the accident took place, what doctors…
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What is an Interrogatory and Why is it Important to Your Case?
Go to What is an Interrogatory and Why is it Important to Your Case?Interrogatories are questions that are written down and sent to your attorney by the defense. You should know that many of the questions in auto accident cases are standard questions that are approved by the Florida Supreme Court. After interrogatory questions are sent to your attorney, your attorney should then call you, and then your…
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What to Watch Out for When Dealing With a Property Damage Adjuster
Go to What to Watch Out for When Dealing With a Property Damage AdjusterEveryone should know that property damage adjusters work for the insurance companies, just as much as the injury adjusters do. Keep in mind they have the same interest in saving the insurance company money. Be very careful when dealing with property damage adjusters. Anything you say or do in front of them can be used…
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Preventing Aortic Injuries in Auto Accidents With Air Bags and Seat Belts
Go to Preventing Aortic Injuries in Auto Accidents With Air Bags and Seat BeltsAirbags and seat belts can help to prevent aortic lacerations in some frontal crashes. Yet, there is still a large amount of data showing that they are not entirely effective in preventing aortic tears in auto crashes. Many doctors who have studied how aortic lacerations happen in auto crashes have found that, while seat belts…
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Aortic Ruptures and Lacerations Caused in Car Crashes
Go to Aortic Ruptures and Lacerations Caused in Car CrashesIt has been reported that there are over 8,000 incidents a year of aortic ruptures and tears occur in car crashes. The vast majority of people who sustain this type of injury do not survive. Aortic tears/ruptures from auto accidents are the #2 cause of death at the scene of an accident — second only…
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The Other Driver Was Drunk, How Does That Affect My Case?
Go to The Other Driver Was Drunk, How Does That Affect My Case?The Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation estimates that drinking and driving costs Americans around $132 Billion each year – which comes to about $400 per person, man, woman, and child. And that $400 toll doesn’t even begin to approach the amount of money lost when you’re the victim of a drunk driving accident –…
