1. 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
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2. 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.
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3. Duties Under Duress & Loss of Enjoyment AT HOME
This is filled out TWICE
Within the first week
At the Final Exam

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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)

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.