Don’t Worry About Personal Injury Claims

You walk into one of your favorite lunch time restaurants and before you know what is happening you are on the floor. The manager rushes to your aid, helps you up, and apologizes for their mistake of not having the proper wet floor sign out to aid in preventing your fall and therefore your personal injury. He even tells you that your lunch will be on him today.

As your day continues you realize that your back is really hurting and you decide to go see your family doctor. You explain what happened at lunch and your doctor decides to take a few x-rays. Upon seeing these he tells you that you have damaged several disk and that you will require surgery, but this can not be done until the swelling has gone down. You are told to go home and go straight to bed.

Lying in your bed you begin to think that maybe, just maybe, something needs to be done on your behalf. As a matter of fact your boss asked if you had contacted a person injury lawyer to look into this situation. As you open the yellow pages you are taken aback by the number of lawyers who advertise for personal injury claims. As you thumb through the pages one name jumps out to you, yes that is name of the man who helped you friend after her car accident.

Once you had given a detailed explanation about your fall, x-rays were taken, and now you learn that you have damaged a few disk and you will require surgery. The only problem is that do to the swelling the surgery will have to be put off until sometime next week. All you can think about is how badly you hurt, the amount of time you will miss from work, and how will your family be able to survive with you laid up.

You have had your surgery, spent several days in the hospital afterwards, sent home for more bed rest and are told you will start to have physical therapy in two weeks. On your first trip to the physical therapy office you are told by the therapist that is working with you that you are looking a several months of therapy. You are also told at this time you can not return to work as your doctor has not released you to do so.

After returning home you call your attorney and tell him that there is no way you can stay home from work for several months. He tells you not to be concerned as the insurance company for the restaurant will begin making weekly disability payments to you. All you need to do is concentrate on getting better.

During this meeting you learn that the grocery store is responsible for all your medical bills including any physical therapy. You are also informed that you may be able to receive temporary disability payments while you are out of work and at the end of your claim you should expect to receive payment for any pain and suffering. Needless to say you are very relieved to learn all of this information;however, you are concerned with how you will pay the attorney fees.

You finally are cleared by your physical thearpist and your doctor has released you to return to work. As you look back over this entire situation you are pleased that everything has worked out. The inusrance company has paid you temporary disability while you have been out of work, all your medical bills have been paid, and you have also been awarded a sufficent amount of money for the pain and suffering you have experienced. You have learned that working with a good attorney most of the concerns from a persoanl injury can be taken care of.

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