Document Checklist
Motor Vehicle Accident
✓ Police Report
✓ Defendant’s insurance carrier, claim number, policy number and limits/Dec Sheet from insurance company. UIM info (if any)
✓ Medicals showing injuries (ER report, MRI’s, Narrative reports, Operative reports)
✓ Hospital admission and discharge summary
✓ Complaint
✓ Demand/ Offer letters
✓ Case status
Medical Malpractice
✓ Experts Report
✓ Complaint/Summary Judgment/ Answers
✓ Defendant’s insurance info (Carrier, Claim number, Policy limits and number)
✓ Medicals showing malpractice and treatments (Initial medicals, diagnostic reports, surgical reports)
✓ Bill of Particulars (BP) / Answers to interrogatories
✓ Economist/actuarial report if death or catastrophic injury
✓ Case status
False Arrest
✓ Police report/Investigative report
✓ Were the charges dropped (if so Certificate of disposition, Dismissal letter/order)
✓ Arrest Warrant
✓ Medical Records showing injuries and treatments if police brutality involved (initial docs, discharge report, ER record)
✓ Criminal Complaint
✓ Lawsuit summons and complaint (if filed)
✓ Demand letter/Settlement letter
Wrongful Termination
✓ Was this case filed with the EEOC? EEOC department of labor charge
✓ Summons and Complaint
✓ Settlement Offers
✓ Demand Letter
Wrongful Death
✓ Death Certificate
✓ Experts Report
✓ Copy of summons and complaint, Summary Judgment, Answers
✓ Defendant’s insurance coverage (Insurance claim number, policy number and limits)
✓ Initial medicals, diagnostic/surgical reports
✓ Bill of Particulars (BP)
✓ Letters of administration (any beneficiaries, surviving spouse?)
✓ Economist/Actuarial report
3rd Party Workers Compensation ONLY
(we Do Not fund straight WC cases)
✓ Accident/Incident report
✓ ER records, Initial meds, MRIs, X-ray Reports, CT scans, Neuro-Psych Report
✓ Hospital admissions and Discharge
✓ Summons and Complaint
✓ Demand/Offer letter
✓ Defendant’s insurance carrier, claim number and policy limits/number
Settled
✓ Settlement Docs
✓ Lien Acknowledgement
✓ General Release
Premise Liability
✓ Police/Incident/Accident/EMS Report
✓ Summons and Complaint, Answers, Notice of claim
✓ Defendants insurance carrier and claim number/policy limits/number
✓ Emergency room admission and discharge, Initial medicals, MRI, CT scan, X-rays
✓ Treatment records, Surgical reports
✓ Demands Letter/Settlement offer
Dog Bite Cases
✓ Incident/Accident/Police Report
✓ EMS/Ambulance Records
✓ Initial medicals, Treatment records
✓ Defendant’s Insurance carrier, claim number, policy limits/number, Dec sheet
✓ Was incident report to animal control? Report? Does the dog have a history of biting?
Labor Law
(in New York ONLY)
✓ Incident report/C2 Report
✓ Ambulance call report or detailed note from the atty
✓ Medicals showing injuries (ER records, Narrative report, Operative reports, Treatment records)
✓ Lost wages?
✓ Defendant’s insurance carrier, claim number and policy limits/number (if applicable)
