There are very few secrets in litigation cases. The defendant's insurance company has an index system on a nationwide basis that shows all the people who previously have made claims for injuries. If you have made a claim in another incident for another injury, your name will be there.

The insurance company or defense attorneys are permitted by law to take videos, question your neighbors, talk to your employer, check former addresses and engage in an investigation of your life. This may be offensive to you, but in most circumstances it is not illegal. The insurance company or defense attorney may obtain the office records, bills and reports of all your doctors, past and present, so disclose to our office all physicians that you've seen and all problems you have had in the past. Be assured that the insurance company will make an exhaustive study in your case to determine the validity of your claim.

You are urged to be candid and absolutely honest in all your answers throughout the entire case. Please confide in us. Do not hold anything back. Let us be the judge of whether or not certain information can hurt your case. If, in fact, it is information that will hurt your case, the defense will find out, and if your lawyers are not prepared to deflect the issue, your case will lose value-often, significant value.