There’s nothing referred to in the law as an Independent Medical Exam. The exams called IMEs are actually insurance medical exams. These exams should be treated as an adversarial examination. When our client is subject to an insurance medical exam, one of our attorneys should be present to advocate on his or her behalf.
If it’s a public hospital, such as one operated by the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation in New York City or Westchester Medical Center in the County of Westchester, a notice of claim is necessary. The statute of limitations is also shorter against a public hospital. You have 1 year and 90 days to…
If you fall on property owned by someone in New York State and are injured, you might have a valid personal injury case against that person. Their insurance company will pay for the claim, so even if it’s somebody you know, you should consider bringing an action and they should understand that it is their…
