Important points to remember about your personal injury claim
- Remember that your biggest responsibility is getting better: Leave the legal work to Hemminger Schmid. Make sure your focus is you. You need to get your life back on track. Leave it to us to assist with you legal rights while you focus on getting better.
- Contact Hemminger Schmid first: before you talk to ICBC, or health practitioners; we want to make sure that we put your claim on the best foot forward from the beginning;
- Keep receipts for every expense related to your injury: we can recover the costs for your crutches, ambulance, non-prescription items, prescriptions, bandages, damaged clothing, damaged bicycle helmets, transportation costs, payments you have made to people for babysitting, doing your laundry, homemaking. If you do not have a receipt or a detailed record of the expense, it makes it harder for us to collect. It is your money so you should have it back.
- Keep an accurate record of all the visits: to doctors, therapist and any other medical visits and include that in your diary;
- Keep a diary of how you are feeling each day or each week: include your medications, visits to health professionals, your pain levels from 1 to 10, your medications, and the hours your slept the night before.
- See your general physician regularly and tell him or her specifically about your injuries each visit: In the early stages of your injury see your doctor every two weeks to ensure that you have complete care, you should never go more than 60 days without a visit. Your doctor’s records of your visits is vital to the success of your claim; before going to your doctor prepare for the visits by noting your symptoms and concerns and make sure you tell your doctor about your concerns; eventually your doctor’s records will be used as a tool to settle your claim or used at the trial in your matter.
- Let our office know if you have moved or if your employment situation has changed.
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