Medical records are what drive outcomes in New York No-Fault arbitrations.
The Morris Law Firm has a broad range of clients that we represent for exactly those arbitrations.
Individual patients often seek treatment at more than one of our clients’ offices.
Normally those medical records all arrive at the No-Fault insurance carrier.
This allows the No-Fault insurance company to cherry-pick records from all of the providers to influence the outcome of the arbitrations.
Painting an incomplete or skewed picture of the patient, their care, and the necessity of that care.
When Morris Law Firm clients have an arbitration hearing, they have the benefit of more records.
This is because we can, and we do, unify the records for one patient across as many cases as possible.
Often doubling the amount of records in a case from what our client initially provided to us.
This puts our clients on a level playing field with the insurance companies who denied the care in the first place.
It also shows that there is a strong consensus about the need for the treatment in question.
After implementing this process at my office I was able to check the data on outcomes of hearings as well as settlement amounts and discern a solid improvement in both.
This confirmed to me that going into each arbitration with as much medical records “ammunition” as possible would be our default strategy from then on. As always we rely on the good judgment and care and concern of our clients to refute irrational New York State No-Fault Denials.