Here is a common question that the law firm gets from people that have accident and from clients who are treating for injuries stemming from a car accident or other type of accident. Here is this week’s blog entry by the accident lawyer in Boca Raton (injury attorney Delray Beach, accident lawyer Boynton Beach, injury lawyer Wellington, accident attorney Lake Worth, accident lawyer Palm Springs, injury attonrey Loxahatchee, accident attorney Royal Palm Beach, injury attonrey Palm Beach Gardens).
Generally, a letter of protection is a document where the doctor agrees to hold off on collection efforts pertaining to a medical bill in exchange for an agreement by the client (and commonly the lawyer also signs this agreement) that the bill will be satisfied from the proceeds of an injury settlement, if any, pertaining to such treatment. These are common and in many cases clients sign many of these when they have been in an accident.
The good thing about letters of protection is that for someone who does not have health insurance, the letter of protection allows them to treat for an accident where they otherwise may not have the ability to treat with that doctor or any doctor. Further, even if the client has health insurance, oftentimes the health insurance may have large co-pays or have such limited coverage that seeing the particular doctor may not be possible without the letter of protection.
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It is important to note that every case is different and should be judged based on the specific facts of the case. The advice in this blog is intended to be general in nature and should not to be construed as specific advice for a case, as the any difference in the facts could change the result. Also, this blog is, as the web site name suggests, based on Florida law and the laws of any other states or even another country could be significantly different from Florida.
