What if I had pre-existing medical conditions before my personal injury case?
Stephen D. Phillips: Illinois civil law is forgiving: you do not need to be an Olympic athlete. With a prior injury or condition, you present evidence of how the accident aggravated it, through doctors, nurses, therapists, friends and family.
Attorney Stephen D. Phillips · Personal Injury · 59-second answer
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The civil law in Illinois is forgiven, and what it says is, okay, not every person who comes into court, who’s injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, needs to be an Olympic athlete. Many people, regardless of their background or regardless of their occupation, has a prior injury or prior condition. And the law says, if you have that, you present evidence of how it exacerbated or aggravated the underlying condition. And what we do is we present medical evidence through doctors, nurses and therapists, as well as through friends and family members of how active they were even with their prior injury versus what happened to them in the accident that you’ve come to us for.
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