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Experienced Personal Injury Attorneys May be able to Prove PIP Insurance Fraud.

The Florida legislature has continued to give the insurance industry more rights in the "PIP Wars" to the point where a consumer will get run over and flattened like a pancake unless they hire an attorney to enforce their rights to obtain the insurance benefits they paid for.  Here is the story:

New case law, allows an insurance company to cut off Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits without the policy holder ever being examined by the insurance company's doctor.

These recent court decisions make it easier for insurance companies to deny PIP benefits to their policy holders and to show greater profits to the detriment of ordinary citizens who have been seriously injured in car or truck crashes. 

Insurance companies have had the right to conduct insurance medical exams carried out by their own "hired guns" since 1972.  These doctors, after an "examination" predictably deem the insured has no need for medical care which results in the termination of their benefits.

Lawyers were able to contest these sham independent medical examinations by sending vidographers and by limiting the endless questioning of the injured person that are designed to help the insurance company deny coverage.

This tactic was valuable because, if the insurance company sought to cut off PIP benefits there would be video evidence to present to a judge to prove that the exam was just part of a deceitful business practice by the insurance company held to deny their policy holder benefits they had paid for.

Fortunately, it is possible for experienced personal injury attorneys to prove insurance fraud and get PIP benefits reinstated along with attorney fees and costs.  

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Here are my suggestions on what to do if you find yourself in this predicament.
New PIP Case Law in Florida