For more than a year, we have been encouraging you not wait to see the doctor following an auto accident. We have been advising this because the Florida Legislature passed a law in 2012 that gives you 14 days to see the doctor following an auto accident to receive the full benefit of your Personal Injury Projection. After 14 days, the benefit reduces. This 14 day deadline was intended to reduce medical claim fraud, and it appears to be working. Below is a graph showing a reduction of claims in South Florida and the Tampa area that have been the regions of greatest incidents of fraud. Read more on InsuringFlorida.org >>
