Keeping a Personal Injury Case Diary

Keeping a Personal Injury Case Diary
After an accident, details of the accident and your injury may become vague when it's time to settle on a compensation amount for your pain, suffering and property damage. The personal injury lawyers at Brawer Hirsch and Associates P.A. suggest creating a personal injury case diary. Keeping a personal injury case diary memorializes facts from moments before the accident to the moment you present your dollar demand. Your case diary can help you chart all physical exams, discussions with the doctors or therapists and even the affect your injury has had on your family.
The following is a list of what you might want to include in your case diary:
• What you were doing just moments before the accident,
• What you remember about how the accident happened
• How you felt just after the accident.( Include a list of all the people around you when the accident occurred., time of day, the weather (if applicable) and what was occurring in the vicinity)
• Everything you noticed about your body after the accident; pain, breaks, sounds, and skin appearance.
• Immediately after the accident:
• Your moods
• Appetite
• pain level and location
• mobility issues
• sleep disturbances
• loss of sensation in your arms, legs or anywhere else on your body.
• List all doctors and therapy appointments with dates and times.
• Detail what the doctor told you, prescriptions given and the effect the drugs had on you.
• list all changes you had to make to your routine as a result of the accident
• List all assistance from family members that you needed
• All required rehabilitation in a nursing home or home health assistance or even hospitalization.
• All time lost from work
• If your injury affected your job performance your economic losses that your injury has cost you.
• All continued pains and changes you have had to make to your regular routine as a result of the injury.
Although keeping a Personal injury case diary can be a chore your memory will naturally fade so the more complete a picture of the total affect your injury has had on your life and your family, the more this will help you remember what you need to improve the chances of your receiving just compensation for your injury.