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This is Jonathan Franco and I wanted to talk a little bit about pre-existing injuries and how they can affect your car accident case. Lots of people have a pre-existing injuries to their back or their neck or some other body part, and they’re wondering how that can impact their car accident claim.

On Tuesday April 10, 2018, the lawyers at Haug & Farrar resolved a workers comp claim for six figures after a mediation. A mediation in a workers comp case is where the injured worker, his/her lawyer, the employer/insurance company’s lawyer, an adjuster for the insurance company, and a mediator sit down in one office for a number of hours and attempt to resolve an entire dispute and reach a settlement.

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A lot of people when they’ve been injured in a car accident are wondering what are they going to do about medical treatment. They are wondering what all that’s going to involve and what different steps there is. How I explained it to people is that there are typically two different types of the injuries, and that’s that’s painting it with a broad stroke.

Make no mistake about it, this is a win for the police power and weakens the protections of the 4th Amendment. The fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures lives on but not for people who have outstanding warrants.