Can an injured person who is filing a claim directly receive expedited handling?
Arbitration requests filed directly by the injured person – including claims for lost earnings – are given expedited, priority handling. Claims brought directly by the injured person constituted only 2.5% of the filings in 2008. The other 97.5% of the filings were made by health service providers who obtained an assignment of benefits from the injured person in payment for their services. Since the case of the injured person who files directly for arbitration does not involve an assignment of benefits, it is often called a “non-assignee case.” The injured person’s “non-assignee case” goes through a conciliation period like other cases, with particular attention to whether it might be settled at that early phase. If it is not settled, the case is then referred for arbitration and promptly placed on an arbitrator’s calendar with sufficient advance notice of hearing to the parties. The injured persons’ cases that had their first hearing in the first half of 2009 had an average age of less
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