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Update from.....Izzy
lighter:
Izz:
The insurance company's lack of planning, care and humanity should not require you be subjected to an odyssey of suffering, IMO.
Your attorney needs to man up and write a letter that spells out clearly for a Judge, the media, and any bystander what the Insurance Company is doing here without any consideration for your pain threshold, ability to use a public toilet or the top of the bone you had to have lopped off at your hip making travel for pleasure impossible..... .why would the insurance company require you travel bc of their incompetence?
Two words.....
ongoing
debacle.
Someone in a position of authority at that IC needs to be made aware of the decisions their employees are tossing out with the expectation you be the one who foots the bill every time they drop the ball.
This is outrageous.
I
am
appalled.
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
hi lighter,
I understand that you are appalled and at times I am as well.
I am keeping track of the times that have cost me endless worry and distress just to add to the General Damages.
The Insurance Company knew last April about public washrooms, when I went through the Examination for Discovery. What would make their lawyer think that that was no longer an issue? Why would they not set up a local appointment at that time to have a Doctor corroborate my details during the EFD? That being said I would have an appointment now, but locally. Otherwise, as I said, a local one could take over a year and the Court date is April.
Further delays will occur if my lawyer has to go to Court to plead a case for me that might not pass muster. It is easier and faster to plead 'public toileting' with the Defence lawyer.
If the IC is trying to trip me up they will fail because I have done nothing but tell the truth, and be as co-operative as possible.
Their correspondence comes in to the Legal Assistants and is taken care of from there. (I, unfortunately, am on my 4th Legal Assistant who doesn't know the whole case, but she is sure learning now.) The Insurance company pays for this trip, taxi and airfare, and for Karla's lost wages, the airport parking, hotel, meals. (I refused to go alone.)
Accidents happen, as you know, and it takes the Courts to straighten out the Liability and Worth in a personal injury case, unless the Defence can see no way out of the truth and what it is worth, plus any shenanigans he (IC)has done to make my life more miserable.
Meanwhile, 4 years will have gone by and I have had one 'social occasion' with my lawyer, and lunches out with Karla! Nothing else. I am at home, in intermittent pain, in tremors, (and being that I prefer solitude, I am fine).
Maybe laws are different in our two countries, but the best time to settle is when the healing, as best it can be, is done. I have reached that point now. ...well earlier this year.
I really believe that at the beginning, "I had a broken leg and it should take no longet than 6 months for me to be healed and back to normal." However, I was not a normal case and one thing led to another, all the fault of the IC, rushing, second-guessing and looking at (maybe only) a settlement of $25,000.00 (typical for a broken femur.) By 7 months, when I had a relapse and further pain, they changed their minds when I had the bone removed. I doubt they got over that and all the encompassing problems that that caused for me and the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ that would be far more than a broken leg. (It's like they are on their original kick.) The tremors have only now been diagnosed, and the dental report is yet to come, and I told the LA to send the dentist the pertinant remarks re the tremors so that he can finish his report!.
So, you just stay calm, and all will work its way out, in my favour.
Love
Izzy
lighter:
--- Quote from: Skits on November 07, 2012, 01:00:19 PM ---
So, you just stay calm, and all will work its way out, in my favour.
Love
Izzy
--- End quote ---
Grrrrrrrr.
That's as calm a growl as can be mustered, Izz.
You're one of the strongest people.
Ever.
Lighter
Hopalong:
Izz,
You are a posterwoman for healthy assertiveness.
I am just awed by your steady determination (and documentation).
I believe it is ultimately going to carry you through to a very fine (and deeply deserved) settlement.
You tiger.
love,
Hops
Izzy_*now*:
Thanks Hops,
It's been a long drawn out lesson, but not yet over.
Karla and I talked yesterday and I've reminded her that she is just my companion in charge of public washrooms. Although she is in the medical field, the rest of the trip is as though I am on my own and assistance will come from taxi drivers, hotel bell-'persons' and airline personnel.
Being a very big Insurance Company, they can afford to plant a spy on the same airplane, and at the Dr.'s office they can watch my coming and going. With Karla knowing angles and approaches re my chair it would look easier, than when some taxi driver is a big lummox, or one who doesn't know English, and tries something he doesn't know, just as I run into on my own and give instructions.
i.e when Karla and I go to lunch, she moves the extra chair from the table and I pull in quick as you please, but when I go alone, I have to move the chair in tiny jumps to get it out of my way but not put it in the way of others. There is quite a difference in how smoothly something can transpire with her.
The legal notice gives hints, too, like if a Dr. presses on the top of your head and asks if that causes lower back pain, the answer is "No". Yet if the Dr. tries it with me, he will be surprised to see my teeth gnash--haha-- as long as his hand touches the left top of my head too. (I can tap my head from centre top to centre chin on the left and my teeth gnash. As soon as I cross the centre line to the right side, the gnashing stops. Weird but true.)
The saga continues
Love Izzy
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