The person that has been injured as the result of an accident might lack, at least temporarily, the ability to earn an income. Still, the same person has more than one job or task. Each of those tasks should represent an effort to acquire a fair compensation for the incurred damages.
Jobs that relate to treatment of injury
Expect to get some forms from your insurer. Make sure to complete all those forms and to send them back, according to the designated schedule. Meanwhile, do not seek an excuse for failing to go to a scheduled appointment with a treatment provider. Make good use of the time that you have set aside for each appointment. Talk with the treatment provider, regarding any new injuries. Explain how both newer and older injuries have affected your ability to take part in various activities.
The person treating you will want to know the degree to which you feel pain, as you attempt different movements. Share with that same treatment provider the details that relate to any time that you experienced pain when moving a certain way. Do not forget to mention any time that you had no pain while carrying out a given movement, but then noticed marked pain at a later date.
Materials that you will need to obtain, so your lawyer can use them
Learn from your lawyer what documents need to be sent to the insurer for the at-fault party. If you have any of those same documents in your possession, put them together and give them to your injury lawyer in Chatham.
That same insurer might ask you to provide the defendant’s insurance company with a blanket authorization. Do not honor such a request. You should not feel at all obligated to authorize everything that the insurer for the at-fault party desires.
Communicate with your lawyer every 3 to 4 months. Be sure that you can answer your lawyer’s request at the time of such a communication. For example, you ought to seek out the name of the person that is the registered owner of any other vehicle, among those that were involved in the injury-causing accident. That piece of information must be included in the Statement of Claim.
A request that could push you and your legal counsel to work together even more closely
At some point, you might be asked to attend an independent medical examination (IME). If you receive such a request, you will need your lawyer’s help, as you prepare for that same examination. Lawyers have become familiar with the various tricks that the examining physician might use, in order to have you suggest that your injury has now healed completely.
Remember, the court does not ask for pictures that were taken at the time of the IME. The court only looks at the report that has come from the examining physician, and bases its decision, at least partly, on that same report.