Clearwater Personal Injury Attorney Edward D. Carlson, of Carlson Meissner Hart & Hayslett, P.A. Urges Car Accident Victims to Seek Medical Care Right Away
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Sweeping changes to
The recent amendments to the PIP law, intended to curtail insurance fraud, impose a number of new restrictions on individuals seeking PIP benefits for injuries received in an automobile accident, including:
1) Injured individuals must seek medical treatment within 14 days of an auto accident.
2) Medical care must be "lawfully provided, supervised, ordered or prescribed by a licensed physician, licensed osteopathic physician, licensed chiropractic physician, licensed dentist, or must be rendered in a hospital, a facility that owns or is owned by a hospital, or a licensed emergency transportation and treatment provider. Follow up services and care requires a referral from such providers and must be consistent with the underlying medical diagnosis rendered when the individual received initial services and care."
3) To receive the full
4) Massage and acupuncture services are not covered by PIP policies.
5) An insurer may require injured individuals to undergo an "Examination Under Oath" (EUO). Failure to comply with the EUO demand will make an injured person ineligible to receive compensation under PIP.
6) An insurer may also require injured individuals to undergo an independent medical examination (IME) to determine if their injuries are as severe as indicated by the initial medical examiner. Failure to comply with the IME demand will make an injured person ineligible to receive compensation under PIP.
"Because auto accident injuries are often soft tissue injuries that do not appear right away, it is common for accident victims to refuse treatment at the scene of the accident and only see a doctor when pain eventually surfaces and becomes unbearable. The amended law makes it more important than ever for car accident victims to see a physician right away to make sure they don't lose their rights to benefits under PIP," said accident attorney
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