Should I sign the papers the insurance company asks me to sign after I am injured?

Provided by Mitchell W. Horwitz of Horwitz Horwitz & Associates

It is our recommendation that you should not sign any papers an insurance company gives you without consulting an attorney. After you are hurt at work, the insurance company will supply you with a release so that they can speak to any doctor you have ever seen from birth until now any hospital they can get any record and talk to any physicians and there is no reason to provide them with any general release that allows them to speak to doctors that did not treat you for the injury, in fact there is no reason to allow them to speak to any doctor period, they have no right to speak to a doctor. What the employer does have a right to is to see your medical records following an injury and what we provide to employers are medical records or releases so that they can see the medical records for the injury suffered by the injured worker, that is what they are entitled to see, so that is what we supply them. What you will receive from the insurance company is a release to allow them to speak to your doctor, who is not allowed in our view and you should not permit.

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