{"id":14488,"date":"2013-12-04T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=14488"},"modified":"2013-12-04T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:00:33","slug":"why-do-i-need-to-be-medically-examined-for-an-injury-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/12\/04\/why-do-i-need-to-be-medically-examined-for-an-injury-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I need to be medically examined for an injury claim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iStock_000016350269XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/iStock_000016350269XSmall-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"why you require medical exam in injury claims\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12172\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s very common for people to see a medical expert as part of their claim for personal injury compensation, and this is usually arranged by your lawyer. But why?<\/p>\n<p>The expert you see will produce a report for your lawyer which they will then use to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Value your claim for compensation.<\/li>\n<li>Justify any losses like lost earnings, medical expenses, or travel expenses.<\/li>\n<li>Find out if you need further investigation or treatment to assist your recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This report, known as a <strong>medico-legal report<\/strong>, will give a solicitor the valuable information they need to determine the extent of your suffering and loss to allow them to use a combination of their own expertise and experience, together with official guidelines, to value your claim. In the absence of such a report, your solicitor can only ever give you estimates.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you had two weeks off work and lost out on earnings, the other side may be liable to pay those for you. But they won&#8217;t just take your word for it &#8211; they want solid proof that the time you had off was required; i.e. you genuinely could not have worked whilst you were off. The medical expert can comment on this and confirm in the report that this time off was justified.<\/p>\n<p>If you need treatment like physiotherapy, or perhaps a scan for further investigation, the expert can recommend this and we as lawyers can organise this on a private basis and charge it to the other side. This medical evidence, as you can probably gather, is therefore very important!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve seen my GP \/ been to hospital &#8211; isn&#8217;t that enough?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not to value your claim &#8211; the expert we send you to see is qualified to produce a medico-legal report, outlining information like I have mentioned above, to allow a solicitor to properly value and justify a claim. A report from your doctor or a hospital isn&#8217;t the same, and we wouldn&#8217;t recommend relying upon this as evidence for a claim.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to see your GP or have some form of medical attention after an accident though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very common for people to see a medical expert as part of their claim for personal injury compensation, and this is usually arranged by your lawyer. But why? The expert you see will produce a report for your lawyer which they will then use to: Value your claim for compensation. Justify any losses like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/12\/04\/why-do-i-need-to-be-medically-examined-for-an-injury-claim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why do I need to be medically examined for an injury claim?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injury-claims-advice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why do I need to be medically examined for an injury claim?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2013\/12\/04\/why-do-i-need-to-be-medically-examined-for-an-injury-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why do I need to be medically examined for an injury claim?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s very common for people to see a medical expert as part of their claim for personal injury compensation, and this is usually arranged by your lawyer. 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