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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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Why Insurance Companies Litigate Cases or Take Cases to Court
Go to Why Insurance Companies Litigate Cases or Take Cases to CourtBack in the mid-1990s, many of the major insurance companies hired a special consultant to advise them how to make more money for their stock holders. These consultants came up with a game plan to cut down on the cost of their defense attorney’s fees per case. One of the recommendations was instead of paying…
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How Social Media & Facebook Can Impact Your Car Accident Lawsuit
Go to How Social Media & Facebook Can Impact Your Car Accident LawsuitAs you know, my law firm has over forty (40) years combined experience in litigating personal injury cases. Recently, insurance adjusters and insurance defense attorneys have become very aggressive in looking for client’s posting on social media sites. Facebook, MySpace, individual blogs, and Twitter are all targets for insurance companies and their representatives to look for items…
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Settlement Offers: When to Settle, and When to Keep Negotiating
Go to Settlement Offers: When to Settle, and When to Keep NegotiatingThroughout the settlement process, your personal injury lawyer will contact you with updates on how the negotiations are going with the at-fault driver’s insurance adjuster. Don’t be dismayed by the first offer – it’s not the final word. Your lawyer will be able to advise you about whether you should accept the offer or request…
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How Cell Phones May Help You Win Your Personal Injury Case
Go to How Cell Phones May Help You Win Your Personal Injury CaseDetermining liability (who is responsible) for an accident often depends on whether someone was negligent– not paying attention. The way the law works is that if one person involved in an accident was less careful than the other person or people, the less careful person has to pay all or part of the damages for…
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How Settlement Negotiations Work
Go to How Settlement Negotiations WorkOnce your lawyer has all the facts, and the medical bills and reports are in, it’s time for the insurance adjuster and lawyer to work out the settlement. While you’re waiting for weeks or months to hear an offer, this is what’s happening behind the scenes. Your personal injury lawyer sends an injury demand letter…
