Important Questions About Personal Injury and Accident Claims

By Ben Glass, Esquire

Benjamin W. Glass and Associates

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Important Questions About Personal Injury and Accident Claims

Should I see the Doctor That My Lawyer recommends?

If you want your case to hold some level of legitimacy if it goes to trial, you need to be extra careful in following this advice. Insurance companies are watching you, and odds are they know much more than you think. Your personal injury attorney may think he's being sneaky by sending you to “his guy” and setting up the pitch for a home run, but he may also be closing your case essentially before it even begins. Just be careful.

Will the Insurance Company Spy On Me With Video?

You may be surprised to hear that the answer to this question is yes, the insurance company may spy on you using video surveillance. We see this both in our personal injury practice and in our disability practice. There are certain insurance companies that are pretty famous for this.

So, how can you avoid having your case destroyed by the insurance company conducting video surveillance? Well, the first thing is you have to be brutally honest with your own insurance company and with your lawyer about the extent of your activity level.

You see, people who have their cases destroyed by video surveillance tend to be people who are exaggerating about what they can and can't do, or who are outright lying about their activity level and the extent of their injury.

If you're involved in a disability case and you get an activities questionnaire from an insurance company where they ask you to chart your activities for the week, that's a pretty good clue, at least in our experience, that they're going to be attempting video surveillance of you. They're going to compare what you write in your activities chart with what they catch on video surveillance.

If the insurance company wants to do a field visit and sit down with you in your house or your attorney's office, typically that means they already have you on video surveillance. So, again, if you're telling your insurance company (or telling the defense lawyer in a personal injury claim) that you can't do certain things and they catch you on video surveillance doing any of these things yes, that's going to destroy your case, but it's not because of what they've done, it's because of your misrepresentation of your activity level.

You must be honest and upfront with your attorney and the insurance company so that if the insurance company decides to conduct video surveillance of you, they're going to see exactly what you've told them your abilities and limitations are nothing

which can doom your case before you ever get to trial.