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West Palm Beach Car Accident Plaintiff's Interrogatories and Request to Produce to Defendant's Medical Evaluator

Once your West Palm Beach car accident case is in litigation, your West Palm Beach car accident attorney will engage in a process know as discovery with the defense attorney to gather documents and information to develop your case in anticipation of trial. Your West Palm Beach car accident lawyer may send out what are known as interrogatories (questions to a specific person) answered under oath and request to produce (documents relating to your injury and treatment). Your attorney may ask these of the defense medical evaluator who performed an independent medical examination of you. Your West Palm Beach car accident lawyer might ask or request the following:

total anticipated/actual charges paid by the defendant or insurance company for an axamination of the plaintiff and report preparation, anticipated charge for testimony of defense medical evaluator of plaintiff, number of times in the past 4 years the defendant medical examiner has performed independent or adverse medical exams for the insurance company who insures the defendant, number of times the doctor has testified for any defense insurance company or defense attorney in the last 4 years, the total number of gross billing the medical examiner and the company that set up the exam charged the insurance company, defendant or defense attoreny, total amount defense medical examiner earned for IME servcies or advers exams, gross earned by defense medical examiner for depos or trial tesitmony, all articles written by medical examiner, all 1099s issued to each and every one of defendant's medical examiners by defendant's law firm or other agenct who handles defense medical evaluations in the last 4 years, resume for all defense medical examiners who saw the plaintiff, schedulling calendar and percentage of defense medical examiners income from medical/legal review.