The Injuries Board?

edener

Hi all,

When the IB send a letter saying they are assessing before they have received all the medical information and report(s), does that mean they will for sure assess or they may change their minds if it becomes clear that there are overlapping injuries, a psychological aspect, continuing pain etc and continuing treatments without a decisive prognosis? In such a scenario do they still proceed or issue an authorisation?

What would happen if the report from the panel specialist they refer you to and who reports back to them, clashes with other information the claimant may have from other doctors?

If someone goes with a solicitor would it be usual for the solicitor to cover the costs of seeing specialists and medical reports etc or is that generally the responsibility of the claimant themselves? Thanks.

Sue Pa Key Pa

If there is a psychological aspect to a claim, the Injuries Board will not continue with an assessment and you must go down the standard litigation route

edener

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

If there is a psychological aspect to a claim, the Injuries Board will not continue with an assessment and you must go down the standard litigation route

Thanks, but I'm not sure this is correct? I know that standalone mental health issues caused or impacted upon by an accident won't be assessed but this is not the case when it comes to claims which have both a physical and psychological aspect, oddly enough.

hullaballoo

No, assessments of psychological injuries are ultra vires the injuries board.

darro31

I'm currently dealing with injury board I'm at the stage where there going to issue a order to pay how long will it take for me to get money once this has been issued


im trying to find out but to no joy at at all

mrsbeebee

darro31 wrote: »

I'm currently dealing with injury board I'm at the stage where there going to issue a order to pay how long will it take for me to get money once this has been issued


im trying to find out but to no joy at at all

The other side have to accept the award first as do you. If it's accepted by both sides it's still a few weeks until you get the cheque. If you fail to respond you are deemed to have rejected the award so if you're happy with it accept it.

nuac

edener wrote: »

Hi all,

When the IB send a letter saying they are assessing before they have received all the medical information and report(s), does that mean they will for sure assess or they may change their minds if it becomes clear that there are overlapping injuries, a psychological aspect, continuing pain etc and continuing treatments without a decisive prognosis? In such a scenario do they still proceed or issue an authorisation?

What would happen if the report from the panel specialist they refer you to and who reports back to them, clashes with other information the claimant may have from other doctors?

If someone goes with a solicitor would it be usual for the solicitor to cover the costs of seeing specialists and medical reports etc or is that generally the responsibility of the claimant themselves? Thanks.

In better days fadó fadó some solicitors funded the costs of such reports. Few can do so nowadays. The client's bank or Credit Union may fund these on the security of your solicitor's undertaking

darro31

I accepted the offer and the other side never replyed to the offer so are deemed to have accepted the offer,
how long more is this going to take

caniask86

I submitted a claim through injuriesboard, they said they would assess etc but it was a year later before I submitted my medical report from my own doctor. It was only when I submitted the medical report did things move along of course.
Now I am waiting for them to send me an apt to see an independent doctor, I assume they always do this?

Also you have 3 months to wait possible from the insurance company or whoever it is to respond to your claim.

darro31

ive gone true all that im at the stage where insurance company are deemed to have accepted the offer and im waiting for a order to pay to be issued but I don't know how long this process takes it 2,4,6,8 weeks

Caithfidhme

OP are you using a solicitor and when did you accept the offer?

darro31

Caithfidhme wrote: »

OP are you using a solicitor and when did you accept the offer?

I accepted the offer as

darro31

Caithfidhme wrote: »

OP are you using a solicitor and when did you accept the offer?

I accepted the offer as did the other side aweek before Easter

Caithfidhme

.....are you using a solicitor?

Well if it was just before Easter, it definitely won't be issued yet and depending on whether you are using a solicitor, that can hold things up, not unnecessarily, just administratively.

Caithfidhme

You also said that the other side defaulted, not accepted.

darro31

Caithfidhme wrote: »

You also said that the other side defaulted, not accepted.

I was on to my solicitor. This morning a order to pay has been issued. And said I should expect paymeant by da 13 of may

Caithfidhme

Well if the order to pay has been issued today, will take few weeks. Cheque has to be issued; reserves cleared, any special damages accounted for and matched on their system, depending on amount of cheque it may need to be authorised by someone higher in the insurance company, may need to be posted from the UK, will be sent to your solicitor who will need to lodge it, it will need to be cleared, any costs they have spent deducted & offset against the funds and fees and then a cheque re-issued (unless there is a separate cheque from the insurer specifically to the solicitor regarding fees, depends on insurer). It isn't just a case of cheque being issued; has to be accounted for.

So you should be waiting no more than 6 weeks and even then it should be less than that but there's a lot of variables.

darro31

this process is very very slow

Caithfidhme

Yes because the idea is to weed out unwarranted claims; it just doesn't work

darro31

When a order to pay is issued by injury board how long do you have to wait u till you get a settlement

endacl

darro31 wrote: »

When a order to pay is issued by injury board how long do you have to wait u till you get a settlement

Dunno. I think you have to ask the same question on here a few more times before they'll even open the cheque book.

darro31

There surely a rough time scale on the matter

nuac

Mod
Darro31
This is a discussion board.
Suggest you talk to your own solicitor re time-scales here rather than just repeating your query

Ashamyjoe

Just a quick question. When the other side agree to the injuries board how long does it take to hear back?