Collect all the medical records from every provider that has seen you since the date of injury. Also collect all the correspondence from the insurance company and its attorney, all claims, answers, petitions, and prehearing conference summaries and notices that were filed with or by the Alaska Workers Compensation Board.<\/p>\n
When you start looking for an attorney to handle your workers compensation claim, you will quickly find out that attorneys will ask you to pull together a number of records to review. At the very least, he or she will want to see all<\/strong> of your medical records since your date of injury, the report of the insurance doctor (EIME), if one exists, and the controversion notice, if one exists. Depending on the circumstances, the attorney may want to request more documents in order to review your case.<\/p>\n There are two basic reasons why attorneys ask for the file before deciding whether to accept the case: first, in order to evaluate the case properly, and second, it is a test.<\/p>\n