What Purpose Do Authorisations Serve?

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Initial meeting
Why?

Today’s topic is going to be authorisations. What purpose do authorisations serve? In all of our cases, in our car accident cases, we will need to order medical records and bills. I can’t just call the hospital or the doctor up and say: Hey doc? Did you saw Jane Doe for the accident? Shot me over her medical records and bills. They gonna be looking at me like: Are you crazy?

Initial meeting #

Basically, I need to send them something in writing. At our initial meeting with a client, we usually find out all of the medical providers that the client saw. We have the client sign authorisations serve for us to obtain those medical records and bills. Some medical providers will accept our generic authorisation others will have their very specific one. That’s why we all the medical providers that treated our client, so we can have them sign proper medical authorisations. Unfortunately, sometimes clients get to us a bit late. They have given the insurance company, a lot of information. They have signed authorisation for the insurance company to be able to obtain all of those records and bills. That’s a mistake.

Why? #

Because insurance company can go back 10 years in your medical records, and go digging for something that is really not related to the accident, but that they can use against you. Our first if that happened is to evoke all of those authorisations, and hope they have not obtained any damaging information for your case.

If you have any questions about authorisations in a car accident case, don’t hesitate to give me a call: 314-352-6800. Thank you very much and you have a good day.