Medical Bills - Evaluating Your Personal Injury Insurance Claim
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006The value of a personal injury claim has a direct relationship to the amount of your medical bills. Why? Because a claim with medical bills of $500.00 is worth three to five times more than a claim with $100.00, or less. And that s a fact of life in the world of insurance claims.
The adjuster will reason if you were hurt badly enough to run up $500.00 in medical expenses than it s correct to assume that your injuries must be substantial. But, if you see your chiropractor or physician only once or twice, and your final bills are in the vicinity of $100.00, that adjuster will assume you weren t hurt too seriously.
DEMAND THAT ALL YOUR MEDICAL BILLS BE PAID: The adjuster may try to disallow a substantial part of your total medical expenses which he contends doesn t qualify as “medical” in character. He ll often attempt to divide your medical costs into two arbitrary parts - - “Diagnostic” and “Treatment”. In the “Diagnostic” category he ll include (more...)
