Accident Claims Medical Assessment

Making a successful accident compensation claim involves more than just choosing an expert solicitor. To successfully claim compensation, you will need evidence to support your claim. One of the most important pieces of evidence that is gathered as part of an accident compensation claim is the medical report detailing your injuries. As part of your claim, this report is compiled by a doctor after they examine you injuries at a special medical appointment.

No cost post accident medical assessment

Accurate medical evidence is very important if you are looking to make a successful compensation claim. The courts and defendant insurers will use this evidence when deciding on the size of any compensation award or offer. A medical report helps to identify the physical and psychological affects that the accident has had on you. Any injury compensation you are awarded if your claim is successful will be calculated with reference to the medical evidence.

It is possible that in more serious accident compensation claims, more than one medical report will be needed. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, if your injuries are any more than minor injuries, you might need to be examined by a doctor specializing in treating that particular injury. This specialist may be either a consultant, or if there is a possibility you injury might require some form of corrective surgery, a surgeon.

Secondly, if your injury is one that has not healed within a reasonable amount of time after the accident, or if you have developed complications to the initial injury, such as a chronic pain condition, then an additional medical might be required. The purpose of this medical assessment would be to monitor the changes in your condition so that the most up to date medical evidence is available to your solicitor and to the other side. People suffering from longer term injuries after an accident might require a series of medical assessments, typically every six to twelve months to monitor their recovery and also to explore whether other treatments might offer them some level of relief from their symptoms.

What to expect at a post accident medical assessment

As part of a personal injury compensation claim, we send all injured clients to a specialist medical assessment. Using a network of medical professionals based across the UK, we aim to arrange an appointment for you at a location near to you and at a time that is convenient.

Your medical appointment will usually take place at a doctor’s surgery or at a private consultation room that is used specifically for medical assessments. The length of any medical assessment will depend on the nature of your injuries. The medical professional will ask you about your accident and about how your injuries are affecting you at work or around the home. Your accident claim medical report will then be prepared, based on your answers and the results of your examination.

All the doctors and medical professionals Camps use are provided to us by a medical appointment agency. We monitor the feedback from our clients as to how their medical appointments went so that we can be sure that the after accident medicals we arrange are of the highest standard.