If you have been treated as an inpatient in a Connecticut hospital as a result of your serious Wallingford, Connecticut car accident case then one of the elements of your damages will be related to the time that you spent in the hospital. If you have suffered an injury that was so serious as to require you to be hospitalized, then you should never speak with the at fault party’s insurance adjuster unless and until you consult with an experienced Connecticut personal injury attorney. To proceed otherwise could cause you to severely compromise the value of your case or completely destroying the value of your case.
If you are represented by experienced Connecticut accident attorney one of the records that will be requested will be your complete hospital record. It is important to remember that while you were in the hospital that all of your complaints will be recorded in your hospital record. Therefore if you are experiencing pain you should properly communicate that information to the health care personnel. You should be very specific in describing all of your pain, limitations, and any other complications which you are experiencing so all of this information properly makes its way into the hospital record. If you properly advise all of the doctors and nurses, in detail, of all of the problems that you are experiencing, then you can help to increase the value of your case.
Depending upon the length of your CT hospital stay, any complications that you experienced, and your course and care of treatment , your hospital record could be quite large. Your hospital record could include some or all of the following items: your admission form; the consent to treatment form; the assignment of your health, accident or motor vehicle insurance benefits; the doctors’ admission notes, medical history and physical examination; the nurses’ admission notes, history and physical examination; the doctors’ discharge summary with final diagnosis; the nurses’ discharge summary with a list of medications; your physicians’ progress notes, diagnosis, assessment and plan; the nurses’ daily notes; tapes of all vital signs; radiology reports; laboratory reports; doctors’ orders; intake and outtake report; record of medications; physical therapy note; occupational therapy note; respiratory for therapy note; surgical notes; operating room note notes; surgical report; anesthesia record; recovery room record; reports of all consultations; emergency room records; intensive care unit records; and in wrongful death situations an autopsy.
If you have sustained a serious injury which requires you to be hospitalized as a result of your Connecticut accident case then you will need to speak with an experienced Connecticut accident lawyer and injury attorney at the earliest possible moment. There are a great number of things that can be done to properly develop your case. There are also a large number of mistakes that you can make by waiting to speak with a Connecticut injury attorney. There is no cost or obligation to speak with an experienced Connecticut accident lawyer and injury attorney so there is no reason to wait to contact a Connecticut personal injury lawyer.
Our Connecticut personal injury attorneys and accident lawyers have been representing injured parties and their families for decades. We have designed our website so we can provide you with a wealth of valuable information that you can use to determine how you would like to proceed with your case. We have even placed a number out of our accident and injury books on her website that you can download for free by visiting www.HCWLAW.com.
You can call our toll-free number at 888-842-8466 and either speak directly with one of our Connecticut accident lawyers or schedule a free, no obligation, office consultation where you can ask all of the questions that you have of our Connecticut personal injury lawyers. We can even visit you at the hospital, your home, or some other convenient location. You can even fill out our brief online form and tell us something about your case. We will then contact you directly. Don’t delay in contacting an experienced Connecticut personal injury lawyer. Get the information you need today without any cost or obligation. We are here to help you.