What you need to know:

• Your initial contact with ICBC
  • Your initial meeting with ICBC's adjuster
  • The documents ICBC will ask you to sign
• How ICBC should assist you after your injury
  • ICBC disability benefits versus other disability benefits.
  • Payment by ICBC for part of the cost of your treatment
  • Financial assistance with your household chores
• Dealing with ICBC after meeting with an adjuster
  • Steps in a personal injury lawsuit against ICBC
  • ICBC surveillance
  • ICBC can use social networking against claimants
  • If you were at work at the time the collision occurred - WorkSafeBC
  • Settlement negotiations
• Valuing a claim for damages
  • Pain & suffering
  • Pre-accident problems & elderly victims
  • Cost of treatment, care & assistance in the future
  • Compensation for family members of the injured person
  • Past loss of income
  • Loss of future earning capacity
  • TNT's recent successes in recovering damages
• Medical experts & records
  • What you need from your medical experts to prove your claim
  • Work capacity evaluators to prove you can't do your job
  • Medical specialists
  • Doctors ICBC hires that it wants you to see - beware
  • Your medical records - the extent of your right to privacy
• Keeping a pain diary
  • Is it valuable to keep a diary?
  • How extensive should your diary be?
  • How do you keep your diary confidential from ICBC?
• Hiring a lawyer
  • Will I risk receiving less help from ICBC early on if I hire a lawyer?
  • When is the best time to hire a lawyer to handle my case?
  • Is it better for me to hire a lawyer on an hourly basis or on a percentage basis?
  • Do percentage fees vary?
  • If I hire a lawyer, who pays the expenses to fight my case such as the cost of reports from medical experts?
  • How do legal fees work if I change lawyers?
  • Is there any harm in my hiring a member of a law firm who also does work for ICBC?
• Hit & run claims
  • After my vehicle accident, the other driver left the scene before I could obtain his licence plate number. Do I have a claim for damages? What do I do?
• Vehicle accident injuries
  • Neck injuries and headaches
  • Dizziness and nausea
  • Post traumatic arthritis
  • Brain injuries
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
• Laughter is the best medicine

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