Taking care of the elderly can be challenging, which is why many Americans trust nursing homes to take care of their aging relatives. Unfortunately, many elders experience abuse in such institutions, leading to physical injuries and long-term psychological harm.
If your client suffered a work-related injury or illness, they may be entitled to workers’ compensation benefits that may cover the following:
Medical expenses
Ongoing care costs
Lost wages
Vocational rehabilitation costs
Funeral expenses
Unfortunately, workers’ compensation claims — even legitimate ones — can be unjustly denied by insurers.
To strengthen their case during court trials, personal injury and workers’ compensation attorneys often rely on MRIs, CT scans, and other radiology images that depict their clients’ injuries or illnesses. Unfortunately, lawyers face plenty of challenges that prevent them from effectively using medical images in litigation, including:
1. Obtaining, storing, transporting, and viewing radiology images
Prior to digitization, doctors burned X-rays onto large pieces of film that would be held against a light box for viewing.
Is your client in the United States seeking compensation for getting injured as a result of someone else’s negligence or intentional act? If so, then your law firm needs to make sure that you have the proper documentary evidence to support your client’s claim.
FAST - A legal practice that primarily caters to personal injury (PI) cases has an intrinsic desire to get matters closed quickly.
One simple reason: They get paid. PI cases are often known for the attorneys' willingness to work on a contingency basis.
Here’s a scenario most person injury attorneys know well. A new client schedules an appointment, and explains how they were injured, and where were they treated. Intake forms are completed and the process of collecting medical records begins.
Missing Pieces?
At Record Retrieval Solutions (RRS), one thing we’ve noticed is that many of the record requests are missing some important billing records.
Personal Injury continues to have the largest share of contingency based fees so the flow of work is critical. Essentially, this means that the firm does not get paid until the matter is either settled out of court or won at trial. Similar cases such as Medical Malpractice, Mass Torts and Class Actions also deal with workflow and tracking passable expenses and set percentages are payable to the firm and then the client.
Record Retrieval Solutions (RRS) is honored to present a guest blog from Personal Injury attorney John C. Miller, Jr. of Miller Injury Attorneys of El Dorado Hills, CA. Mr. Miller shares his experiences as a personal injury attorney, the value of outsourced record retrieval, and his experience working with RRS.
As a personal injury attorney for more than 28 years, I have come to realize that having my in-house staff or myself order, and track medical records and bills is a huge and colossal waste of time and energy.
2016 has been certainly a year for surprises. Whether the topic is baseball or politics, it clearly was full of unanticipated results (well, perhaps for a few with clear crystal balls). Here’s a list of 7 issues and proposed fixes that can keep 2016 in its place, and get you and your firm ready for 2017.
Pending Medical Records – the most common issue PI attorneys requiring fixes is waiting for medical records on behalf of their client.