It takes time and resources to get back on your feet after a devastating car accident. It may be easy to lose track of your responsibilities throughout that process, but it is essential that you document your medical expenses after a motor vehicle accident. The more steps you take to track your expenses, the easier it will be for you to hold a bad actor responsible for your recovery.
You can work with our car accident lawyers at Dominguez Law to determine what losses you have the right to demand from the party responsible for your collision. Together, we can file a personal injury claim against the at-fault party and secure the financial support you need.
Tracking Your Medical Expenses Builds Connections Between Your Accident and Injuries
If you want to fight for damages based on car accident losses, be that with an insurance company or in court, you need evidence to build a connection between your accident and injuries.
Fortunately, a concrete medical record provides onlookers with dates at which you were assessed and findings doctors found notable. If you can point to a medical invoice and highlight that you received treatment for whiplash two weeks after a serious collision, our New Mexico car accident lawyers can better argue for your right to damages based on your expenses.
Tracking Your Medical Expenses Elaborates on the Severity of Your Injuries
Recovering accident damages requires you to do more than establish a timeline of treatments following a collision. If you are contending with severe injuries, you need to prove that their severity stemmed from another person’s unchecked roadway negligence. You and your lawyer can do this by using hard data to emphasize the impact those injuries have had on your everyday health.
Physician’s notes, additional testing requests, and treatment plans all elaborate on how you have had to change your daily life to accommodate for severe injuries. Treatment plans in particular emphasize that you will need additional attention to restore your lost quality of life.
Tracking Your Medical Expenses Justifies More Complicated Treatments
Your records also help you establish that the treatment you are seeking is essential and not extraneous. If you can point to specific physician’s notes and inform an insurance provider that you needed multiple specialists to examine a slipped disk or severe whiplash, you can more effectively include the cost of those exams in your request for accident support.
You can also ask medical professionals to recommend future treatments that may help you accommodate for temporary or permanent paralysis, burns, reconstructive surgeries, broken bone treatments, and other specialist care. When an attorney pairs those expert opinions with X-rays and invoices proving the necessity of your care, liable parties will have a harder time contesting your request for support.
Know What Medical Documents Can Make Your Case
You can work with our New Mexico car accident attorneys to sort through your paperwork, request copies of certain documents, and compile your findings to better draft a claim for compensation. Some of the most important documents you may need can include the following:
- Emergency room records, including physician’s notes and treatment records
- General practitioner records, including physician’s reports and referrals to accident specialists
- Treatment plans from your general practitioner and specialists
- Diagnostic test results
- Medical bills from all parties you visit following a car accident
You can also begin filling out a pain journal to document your health following an accident. The journal can note your pain from day to day as well as the pain’s location and duration.
Dominguez Law Can Protect Your Rights
You have the right to hold negligent drivers financially responsible for the losses you sustained in a recent accident, including your medical expenses. However, you can only demand financial compensation for your losses if you have enough evidence to meet or exceed the state’s burden of proof. It gets easier to meet that burden when you have medical documentation on hand.
If you are not sure what kind of documentation you need to make a new case, or if you want to discuss the specifics of case building with experienced lawyers, book a free case consultation with our compassionate and aggressive lawyers. You can call us at (505) 850-5854 or contact us online to learn more.
