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So this is both a problem and an opportunity. Um you know the insurance doctors call themselves IMEs and independent medical examinations but they're not independent. These doctors are contracted by and work for the insurance company. So obviously they're not independent. They are the insurance company's doctors. And whereas your doctor is your doctor, we expect that your treating doctor is going to give an honest account of your condition. They're going to look to ways to treat
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you better to take care of you. Whereas these insurance doctors very often will give you a cursory examination that could be a minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes. They'll review the evidence and they'll just say they'll they'll tell talk about what they had you do. But in actuality, it's it's a very cursory exam and let's say they find that you have noticeability. So at that point, uh if you're not on a court ordered award, then uh they're going to suspend your payments. Um if you are on a courted
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award, then they're going to make a motion for a hearing to argue against that happening. And what'll happen at that point is again we'll go in front of the judge with our medical evidence. So let's say for example we have an MRI of the back or the neck which shows herniated discs or shoulder tear or you need something done. We're going to be able to have our evidence to show listen here's what we have. This doctor gave a very short examination and this doctor our claim doctor has been treating the
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claimant for a year uh has gone through conservative care has gone through all these things and we feel that our medical evidence is is superior to this independent medical exam and that we would have a trial based on.
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