Attorney's Letter of Protection to Medical Providers

"In BI cases, don't use the doctor's form for a letter of protection for his/her bill.  Use your own form to protect yourself from liability."

The letters and liens that medical providers ask either you or your client to sign do not protect YOU when settlement time comes. When medical providers want a letter or protection from your client or from you, reach for this form.  Protect yourself, not just the medical provider.

Attorney's Letter of Protection to Medical Providers gives you:

• Freedom from worry.  Don't worry about flyspecking forms of doctors' and hospitals' forms when they say a letter of protection from you is needed before they will provide services for a plaintiff unable to pay. Use our form -- not the form the doctor or hospital will ask you to sign. Just the feeling of "no worry" is worth the cost of our Letter of Protection.
   
• A standard procedure for your office.  Not only does this Letter of Protection save you time and freedom from worry. Our Letter of Protection will standardize your office procedures.  With everyone in your office doing the same thing, you won't have conflicts among medical providers in priority of payments, or methods of payment, caused by your own office signing different forms for different doctors. 
   
• Time.  You cannot dictate or type your own form in the time it takes to download this Letter of Protection. You get to a finished product for your case faster and still have a better document to use in your case.
   
• An eight page law report summarizing the lawyer's duties on disbursing funds and how lawyers can protect themselves by using properly drafted letters of protection.
   
• High value return. <--Most important--> Letter of Protection is a very low investment with a high value return in terms of keeping you out of trouble!
  (Just one paragraph in our form, the pro rata payment paragraph that doctors deliberately do not include, probably will keep you out of trouble more than once.)

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You know what happens in your BI cases.  The medical bills pile up, and your client's doctor tells her patient (your client) that medical treatment will stop unless the client either pays the doctor bill now or has you sign a letter of protection saying that the doctor will get paid out of the case settlement.

The form the doctor gives your client to sign is usually not good for either you, the client, or the lawsuit. Nine times out of ten, the doctor's form is worded so that the doctor can be attacked on the witness stand for having agreed not to be paid unless the case is won.  Worse than that, ten times out of ten, the doctor's form is worded so that the doctor gets paid before the costs of litigation (that you advanced) are paid! 

And it gets worse.  When you sign multiple forms for medical providers you can get into some real conflicts of provisions.  The doctor's form conflicts with the hospital's form, and the hospital's form conflicts with the physical therapist's forms, and the chiropractor's form attempts to supervene them all.  In most states, you are held to be the trustee of the funds to see that all the persons you gave letters of protection are paid properly before you are paid out of the settlement.

Our letter of protection form starts out with an eight page law report summarizing the lawyer's duties on disbursing funds and how lawyers can protect themselves by using properly drafted letters of protection.  This report by itself may keep you from making costly mistakes.  Then after this eight page report provided for your education, we give you the form you should use for a Letter of Protection when you need one.

Check your state law, but we think, for most states, our Letter of Protection form is the single best, uniform, form one you can use.  Use our form with the modifications your research suggests is needed for your state. Then send the doctor back her form, and the hospital its form, unsigned by you, and send them your own  form, signed by you and the client.  (Remember, if your client does not sign a letter of protection authorizing you to make the  agreement, you can get in big trouble, and our Letter of Protection guides you to get it done right.)

This Letter of Protection is so inexpensive that if it saves you one-half hour of time ---- ever ---- it would have paid for itself.  But where you will really praise yourself for using this form is the first time it gets you out of trouble!

You can own Letter of Protection if you act by Midnight  , for the price of only $18.

Use your form today! We deliver electronically --- as the integrated last part of the automated purchase process.  After you complete your on-line purchase and your credit card is verified, then your browser is automatically redirected to a new webpage with your link to click to download.  At the end of your purchase, simply wait for your browser to be redirected to a new webpage,  click the link as instructed,  and you have the form in your computer.  It's that easy and quick! 

Dear Fellow Attorney,

Leonard Bucklin Civil Trial Attorney

While practicing for the last 35 years, in a successful five state litigation practice, I developed and refined a Letter of Protection that medical providers all accepted and that saved me from problems when the case settled and the client and doctor were about to part ways.  I developed the form for my use in Texas, where doctors were particularly insistent on not providing medical services to plaintiffs unless there was a letter of protection guaranteeing  payment of their medical bills out of the settlement proceeds. Then I found that the same form seemed to work well in every state where litigation took me.

Having my own Letter of Protection form saved me lots of time, and made me more effective for my clients.

Most attorneys have no real system of developed forms to use with doctors.  Most attorneys waste time, and they miss issues and questions they should ask.

But that doesn't have to be you.

My Letter of Protection is a mentor in a box, coaching you on the points you should consider.  You do not have to waste time, looking at various forms different medical providers send you.  Don't sign the form of the medical provider.  Instead, send them your own standard Letter of Protection form.  Standardize your office practice and protect both you and your client from the clauses in the liens or form letter of protection thrust at you by doctors, hospitals, and physical therapists.