What Documentation is Needed to Submit a Claim for Lost Wages in Las Vegas Injury Claims?


When you are involved in a car accident in Las Vegas, you may have missed work and lost income due to the injuries you sustained in the accident.  Sometimes people think that they can just tell the at-fault party’s insurance company the amount of their lost wages. However, the insurance company will not accept this self-reporting of lost income.

Instead, the insurance companies require written documentation of any lost wages sustained by an injured person. The best evidence of lost wages comes from your own human resources department. First, you need your employer’s human resources department to draft a letter on your employer’s letterhead regarding your lost wages. Secondly, this company letter should have your hourly rate of pay, together with the number of hours of work you lost, due to the accident.

It is important that your doctor has given you an ‘off work’ slip, which you took to your employer, documenting that you were under doctor’s orders not to work, during the period of time you are claiming you lost income. Your personal injury attorney will also make sure this doctors ‘off work’ note is included with your request for lost wages. By submitting this complete paperwork package to the insurance company, your accident attorney will make sure you are fully reimbursed for the losses you sustained in the accident.

Next time, we will discuss using treating doctors as testifying experts in Las Vegas personal injury trials. 

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