Personal Injury Lawyers in Edmonton
In short – YES! Your claim could certainly be affected.
It is very important to realize that your overall claim award can be seriously reduced in reflection of how poorly you did treating your injuries.
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Developing an ongoing relationship with your doctor is invaluable, especially during your recovery from an accident. However, finding a family physician has become increasingly difficult for Albertans in recent years, and doctors accepting new patient are almost unheard of. Not having a regular doctor is the norm, and this has led many people to seek primary care from Medicentres and walk-in clinics.
Continue reading “Visiting Walk-In Clinics During your Recovery”
When you are injured in a motor vehicle accident, visiting your doctor regularly to report your symptoms is essential to your recovery. This builds the medical evidence of your injuries, which is vital to a personal injury claim. Seeing the doctor to report your injuries as soon as possible after the accident is crucial, but it is also essential to return to provide status updates. This is especially true if the treatment protocol isn’t addressing your injuries, and you aren’t seeing improvements with time.
Yes, you read that right. While it may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of motor vehicle accidents, it occurs more often than you might think. As with any other injury that you sustain in a motor vehicle accident caused by someone else, you can receive compensation for it under your bodily injury claim so long as it can be shown that it was caused by the accident.
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An IME is also called an Independent Medical Examination. An IME is a medical examination that is done on you, by a doctor who has never treated you before. Continue reading “I’VE BEEN TOLD I NEED TO GO TO AN IME. WHAT IS IT AND DO I HAVE TO ATTEND…”
The most important thing you can do to help your personal injury claim is to tell your doctor EVERYTHING that is wrong with you after the accident. Continue reading “TELL YOUR DOCTOR EVERYTHING!”