People Working Unassisted on Medical Claims Find that it is More Expensive

The beauty of life is that everyone has a choice. Whether it is to take the difficult road or the easy path, people always have the option of being able to choose. And one of the things that people have a choice in is whether to make the process of filing medical claims a hard or easy one.

On the onset, working on claims without the assistance of a lawyer may look easy. Without the high legal fees, it can also be much cheaper to do. But the ease and savings only appear at the beginning of the road. And as one travels further down it, victims begin to realise that they may have bitten off more than they can chew.

Some of the positive things that getting a lawyer provides is peace of mind. Since most people are not familiar with the law or the procedures surrounding it, victims naturally end up feeling anxious. They constantly worry whether they are doing the correct thing, saying the right words, and acting the right part. All this anxiety, especially when added to the actual physical or psychological injury, can take a toll on one’s life.

Sleepless nights are just the beginning as it contributes to the lack of concentration at work. And being unable to work properly contributes to more stress which makes it more difficult to recover physically and psychologically. Finally, all these problems may contribute to the loss of earnings and increase of expenses, adding to the heavy anxiety a victim already feels.

This is the reason why people working unassisted on medical claims find that it is more expensive for them to be without a lawyer in the long run. This is the reason why people are advised to hire lawyers to take care of the claims case and avoid all the other problems that come with going about it alone.

My Path to Becoming one of Several Clinical Negligence Solicitors in our Law Firm

Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be a solicitor. This is the result of an experience I had as my parents divorced when I was ten year old.

Being a child back then, I did not want them to separate even if my father was less than ideal. The best I could say of him was that he was never around when I needed him. But he was my father, and in a child’s eyes that was all that I needed.

When I finally finished law school, my mother and girlfriend attended my graduation rites. I remember telling my mother that I finally fulfilled my dream of protecting people like her from abusive husbands. But that was not meant to be.

Somewhere along the way of my internship, I got sidetracked from Divorce Law and ended up in Personal Injury Law by becoming one of several clinical negligence solicitors in our law office.

I didn’t notice my preference for Personal Injury Law until I won a particular case involving a young child who was injured in car accident by a heavily drunk driver.

While I found some form of satisfaction whenever I closed out a divorce proceeding, seeing the look on that child’s face, as well as her parents’ reaction, filled me with a sense of accomplishment. This was the one time that I felt the justice system work for people.

But I had a dilemma, and that was the promise I had made to my mother years ago. So I tried my best to stay in Divorce Law. Seeing the burden I was carrying, my mother sat me down one balmy afternoon and we talked about my interest in becoming one of several clinical negligence solicitors.

Seeing that it mattered so much to me, she gave me her wholehearted blessing. Her point was that she only ever wanted me to be happy. Besides that, it was already time for the both of us to break away from the past by getting rid of anything that reminded us of my father.

I was so relieved that day and made my mother another promise; this time something I hope to keep till the day I die. I promised her that I would do my best to defend those in need of justice; putting my defence of them above everything else, including money.

To this she replied that because of me, she found her own fulfilment in life. All she wanted for me is to be happy.

Hiring a Lawyer to Handle Personal Injury Claims Makes a Tough Week More Bearable

Many studies indicate that people dread Mondays the most, compared to all the other days in the week. The source of this dread is because the two-day weekend is over and that they will be returning to a job they dislike. From a nice relaxing afternoon of sipping tea and watching the telly, employees have to deal with the rising anxiety of returning to work the next day.

In contrast to Mondays, studies indicate that Friday is the day that employees favour the most. After five days of extreme tension, this last weekday gives them an opportunity to look forward to a nice relaxing couple of days once more.

Given employees’ love for Fridays, it is no wonder that many hate it when accidents occur on this day. Instead of going home, they need to spend time either in the company’s clinic or in a hospital emergency room.

And instead of spending the time to heal, they end up using all their free time to think about how to file personal injury claims when Monday comes along. And if Mondays were not bad enough, it will get worse because filing a claim is only the beginning of a possible long drawn out battle that can last weeks at a time.

Once out of the company’s clinic or emergency room, accident victims now have to contend with preparing the documents needed to back up any injury claims. And while getting information from a company clinic does not necessary mean taking time off from work, getting one’s medical records from the emergency room in a hospital may require skipping work for at least a day. And that means another day of not getting paid, in addition to the days already lost while being confined in the hospital.

Then there are the days that an employee has to skip in order to physically file the case, to attend settlement discussions, and to show up at court. This means more days of not getting paid.

It is for these reasons that many accident victims prefer hiring a lawyer to handle their personal injury claims. Not only does the burden of collecting information and meeting with the other party get offloaded to them, good lawyers can be counted upon to work out compensation to cover for the days one was not able to come to work.

Monday may be the most dreaded day of the week, but getting injured on a Friday is even worse. Not only does it destroy a good weekend, it makes the coming Monday even more dreadful that it already is.

This is why many people hire lawyers to take care of their injury claims. By having someone else take care of the footwork, victims can go back to enjoying their Fridays once more.

By Listening to Tenant Suggestions, Building can Avoid Costly Personal Injury Claims

I hate being inconvenienced. I already have to put up with heavy traffic going to the office, long lines at the cafeteria, and long waits on the telephone. So having to wait for eighteen month for personal injury claims to finish is not something I look forward to.

It happened about two weeks ago then I slipped down a flight of slippery stairs as I was going home from work. Wanting to get some exercise, but more to avoid the long waiting queue for the elevator, I take the stairs up to my company on the eighteenth floor.

And for the six years that I have been working here, nothing untoward has happened as I zip down those stairs every afternoon.

But on one snowy day, I noticed that a windows pane had shattered to let in a particularly strong snowstorm. When I got to the ground floor on that day, I decided to take another floor down to the basement and report the incident to the maintenance manager. Not doing anything, he lazily took my report and promised to get on it when he was free. But two weeks later, the window still enabled the worst part of any snow to seep in.

Then one afternoon, the worst happened. Being in a hurry to see my daughter off to summer camp, I failed to skip a very wet step and I rolled down the stairs for what seemed to be forever.

When I finally came to rest two flights down my camera, laptop, and tablet were cracked beyond repair. And as I tried to stand up, I discovered that my electronic equipment were not the only things that were cracked. My left arm and leg were at an odd angle. And when I tried to move, extreme pain shot through them.

Still in pain, I made feeble attempts to shout for help, but instead of my normal booming voice, I only managed to croak out a few pleas. It took another hour before someone from security found me while doing his rounds. An ambulance was called and I ended up in traction.

With mounting medical bills, the loss of all my electronic equipment, and inability to come to work, I filed personal injury claims against the building. I cited the fact that I had informed the building manger of the danger posed by the broken window and that it was not attended to as promised.

Seeing that this was a cut and dried case, the building’s management settled and I received compensation to cover lost equipment and medical bills.

Had the building manager acted on my report, immediate action could have spared my being injured. The building would also have avoided costly personal injury claims. But from the way I see it, they deserved what they got because of their negligence.

Not all Personal Injury Compensation is Monetary

During one of the many building demolitions taking place around London, I found myself lying on the curb after part of a wall had collapsed on me. Instead of falling to the empty lot in the rear, it teetered before falling to the front where several bystanders were standing in.

The first thought that entered my mind as I regained consciousness was that I was in hell because everything was dark and I was experiencing the most excruciating pain I even felt in my entire life. But after a few minutes of disorientation, I realised that I was buried underneath rubble.

It took five more hours of darkness and pain before I finally heard the dogs, machines, and people digging towards my position. And it was another hour before I was finally extracted from underneath tons of steel and concrete.

During the trial covering my personal injury compensation, the lawyers for the contracting company insisted that I was fortunate to be alive and that they already did more than enough by paying for my hospitalization. And when they rested their case, they insisted that I was not entitled to anything more than what they already spent.

Thankfully I had a good lawyer and he argued that paying for my medical bills was only part of the company’s obligation. I had missed work for six months and was eventually laid off because I could not carry heavy items which formed part of my job. And as I continue to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, treatment for that should be covered as well.

My lawyer concluded that the trial was short, but I felt like it was the longest thing in the world, especially since I had to continue attending every court appearance from a wheelchair.

In the end, my lawyer was able to secure an amount equivalent to my future salary as part of my personal injury compensation. He was also able to get a budget for my post-traumatic stress disorder as well as something for my continuing therapy.

And while I do appreciate that all my bills will be covered, it is the changes that the company that was ordered to make that put me at ease.

You see, the contracting company was right about my being fortunate. I was the only survivor of the collapsed wall. Fourteen others, including a policeman, died on that fateful day. So when the court ordered changes in the way buildings are brought down, I felt good to know that lives would be saved in the future.