Duties Under Duress A claim can be made for Household & Domestic Duties that the patient HAD to perform despite their pain and the fact that the doctor advised them to be on disability. This form collects information the attorney will use to get a much higher settlement offer Use arrow keys to move forward or backward through presentation

Loss of Enjoyment A separate and different claim can be made for Loss of Enjoyment at Home This form documents both the Duties performed Under Duress AND the patient’s loss of enjoyment they get from taking care of their home and children. Use arrow keys to move forward or backward through presentation

Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME This is filled out TWICE Within the first week At the Final Exam

Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME Instruct the patient to be Thorough Detailed Take it seriously when filling it out.

Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME Carefully filling out this form can add $3000 or more to the patient’s settlement.

Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME Tell the patient to mark ALL Applicable boxes, especially those who tend to not be complainers.

Household Mowing Gardening Yard work Transporting Family Shopping Taking out Trash Painting House

Domestic Vacuuming cooking picking up children Caring for children Dusting Cleaning bathrooms Laundry Washing Mirrors Washing windows Changing Sheets

Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME It must be filled out in the patient’s own handwriting, signed, and dated. Fill in the boxes completely (not checks or X’s)

Failing to follow the doctor’s advice does NOT decrease the settlement. If the doctor puts the patient on disability, yet they work in pain for any or all of these reasons, these two facts work synergistically to INCREASE and MULTIPLY the settlement offer. A housewife/mother cannot just stop caring for children. Performing these household and domestic duties in PAIN increases the settlement. The doctor must DOCUMENT what has happened.

The Doctor records must DOCUMENT the details of the type of pain and symptoms experienced by the patient at HOME for EACH & EVERY activity that has been difficult to do.

This form should be reviewed by either the staff or doctor. Your impression of how sympathetic you feel when reading the patient’s “story” is a good indicator of how sympathetic a juror will feel. Colossus is programmed to compare this patient’s “story” to a similar one in the database and the computer knows how much a jury awarded for the similar set of facts.

and lack details will cause the computer to find a case Forms that are vague and lack details will cause the computer to find a case where the story is equally vague and non-specific. The settlement offer will be LOW and the case blows up.

Guide the patient to include all the details that will make the reader “feel their pain.” The doctor is not an advocate for the patient, but is required to accurately record all the facts.

When this is filled out at the Final Exam, the patient should include all the symptoms they have had since the accident, not just the ones they felt yesterday. Symptoms become intermittent, (come-and-go) as the patient gets better. Include the Symptoms that are intermittent, even if the patient feels good the day this form is filled out.

There are several examples of Household Duties and Domestic Duties at the top of the form. There are only 3 spaces on the form for the patient to write in a “duty.” Use Multiple Forms

Explain to the patient that the more forms she fills out, her attorney will have more information to use to settle the case. Use Multiple Forms

Use Multiple Forms Fill in all applicable boxes for each and every one of these household and domestic activities that has caused pain, discomfort, or difficulty. Remember, Colossus will search the database for a jury verdict in a case with a housewife/mother who had similar difficulties at home. Use Multiple Forms

In Summary… Household Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment for is used to document the difficulties the patient has experienced while working at HOME since the accident It is filled out twice. Once in the beginning and once at the end of the doctor’s case. It is used for stay-at-home moms & dads who care for children or maintain a household. Single people who work AND maintain a home should fill out both a WORK form and a HOUSEHOLD/DOMESTIC form since the do both “jobs.” Married people who work AND maintain a home/care for children should also fill out both forms.