Plaintiff's
Request for Admissions: Medical Expenses
This Plaintiff's Request for Admissions re Medical Expense discovery form will cut out defense games with
your trial proof of medical expenses. Use this to make the defense admit any part of your client's medical expenses
that the defense cannot affirmatively attack as unreasonable.
Establishes you as an experienced attorney who is
not going to take defense denials that violate ethics rules on
denying undisputed facts.
Plaintiff's Request for Admissions re Medical
Expense gives you:
- a form first letter to defense counsel (that you can put into
evidence in a motion for sanctions, showing how reasonable and
professional you are), and
- a form for your follow-up Rule 37 demand that defendant admit the foundation requirements for your client's medical expenses.
When the defense denies everything (a general denial) answer,
they are trying to make you use your valuable time proving
everything, even things not reasonably in dispute. Don't take it! Throw the burden of time back at
them! Make them take their time responding to you! Show the defense you mean business.
A hard-hitting Plaintiff's Request for
Admissions re Medical Expenses gives you an effective use of
Federal Rule 37 (and the like state rules). Save your time of otherwise having to prove every expense at trial, first the
amount, and then the amount as "reasonable and necessary". Do two
things:
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Send the defense a nice
letter enclosing a medical authorization from your client for them
to inspect medical records. (A suggested letter is included in
your purchase of this form.) The defense is going to see all the medial
records of your client sooner or later. You may as well give them access now to them to show your "no
nonsense" approach. After the defense has the medical
authorization, they have a difficult time denying
our targeted Plaintiff's Request for
Admissions re Medical Expenses.
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Sixty days after you sent out
letter with medical authorization, send out our hard-hitting Plaintiff's Request for
Admissions re Medical Expenses. Because you have given
the defense access to the records, the trial judge is not going to
see why the defense cannot make up its mind whether the expenses
were reasonable and necessary. The defense knows then that denying
your request for admissions is going to lead to the judge hitting
them with sanctions.
The words "targeted" and "hard hitting" in the two sentences
above are deliberately chosen. Our Request for Admissions (RFA) form
sends the defense attorney a no-nonsense notice of consequences in a way that gets him/her thinking seriously about their
game of denying the "amount, necessity, and reasonableness" of
every medical expense. Our RFA form is civil and
polite, but it is firm and unyielding. It tells the defense attorney that
you know the civil rule that requires him/her to admit any part of expenses that he/she can not
affirmatively attack as unnecessary or unreasonable.
Our targeted Plaintiff's Request for
Admissions form
firmly tells the
defense attorney you are going to seek attorney fees and sanctions
at trial if they do not follow the rules - right now. This form contains words
that makes the trial judge your friend if the defense has no
affirmative attack on the medical expenses you list.
And that's not all. If the defense denies your
request, the way we have framed it, a defense denial of reasonable
medical bills, becomes a defense personal
attack on the medical ethics of the medical providers. If the
defense attorney does deny the requests, this form gives you a real
wedge to drive the doctor to being firmly on your side of the cases.
Show the treating doctor the defense denial. You can tell the treating
doctors that [use the name of the defense attorney] is questioning their
medical treatment as being unreasonable and wrong, or unnecessary
treatment and being charges over what other doctors charge in the community.
You will find your doctor witness is now enthusiastically on your
side: cooperative about
appearing at trial to say how badly your client was hurt, and why
the doctor had to order the treatment, and that the charges are the amount
expected for the injury. When the defense attorney knows
the doctor is going to be irritated - really angry - because the defense
claims "unreasonable and unnecessary" medical expenses, the defense loses
its enthusiasm for making you take your time at trial to get the
medical expenses in evidence.
Put the defense in a corner. Use the polite but aggressive LawyerTrialForms™
Request for Admissions (RFA).
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