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West Palm Beach Car Accident Order Allowsing Independent Medical Examination of Plaintiff

The defending insurance company in your West Palm Beach car accident case has the right to have an independent medical evaluation performed by a doctor of their choice. However, your West Palm Beach car accident attorney will want to have an order entered limiting the things that the doctor and the defense counsel/insurance company can do during the examination. The types of things you might find in such an order could be:

allowing the plaintiff's counsel to subpoena 1099s, records of payments made to the medical examiner for compensation for the IME, depos, medical records review and forensic activities, the plaintiff may record the IME and have his/her attorney or representative present and no one else except the doctor and his/her staff may attend, limit the examination to conditions in controversy, all persons assisting the doctor must be named and identified on the video, the defendant shall provide transportation for the plaintiff or reimburse him/her for travel, total time of the exam cannot be limited by the plaintiff or his/her attorney, doctor should receive the order, plaintiff's attorney should recevie doctor's resume, and defendant shall provide the plaintiff with an estimate of the reasonable charge for the doctors to attend a deposition.