Legal Question in Personal Injury in New Hampshire

For a personal injury case can you have it put into the settlement agreement that the other persons insurance will have to pay any future medical bills if they come up due to the injuries from the accident? So if in ten years from now you would need back surgery and it is due the injuries you sufford in an accident they would have to pay the bill????


Asked on 11/02/10, 5:42 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Andrew Myers Law Offices of Andrew D. Myers

No.

(a) A settlement is final. Every insurance company release includes language that points out that the settlement is a full and final resolution of the claim, even preventing any future claims for unknown and unforseeable future effects of the accident. As a matter of public policy, settlements are intended to allow the parties to in fact put the matter behind them.

(b) For the above reason, should there be forseeable potential residual effects of an injury, these need to be properly documented in a present medical report. This is why you need an attorney to help you with this claim.

(c) Personal injury attorneys nearly always give a free initial consultation. The insurance industry�s own statistics indicate that once an attorney becomes involved, the value of any claim at least doubles. Put those two facts together and it is in your best interest to retain experienced legal counsel at your earliest possible convenience.

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Answered on 2/25/11, 4:26 am


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