Adding an Injury
- Michael DeCapua
About Adding an Injury
The Injury tab allows you to record the injuries suffered by each plaintiff.
To Add an Injury:Â
If applicable, place a checkmark in the Serious Injury checkbox.
While the existence or absence of a serious injury in a case is noted in various Reports and Dashboards, it has no specific definition within SmartAdvocate. Thus, your firm can determine how this checkbox will be used and the exact meaning or purpose of a checked or unchecked box. For example, some firms use this checkbox to indicate whether the verbal threshold has been met in an automobile accident case.Select the Plaintiff from the dropdown.
If applicable, place a checkmark in the No Injury checkbox.
Enter any Other Injuries not covered by the injuries configured for the Case Type.
This field appears three times, so that up to three injuries may be recorded for each plaintiff.If applicable, place a checkmark in the box for each injury.
The injuries are configurable by the administrator for each case type.Â
The fields for recording injuries only appear once in this area, regardless of the number of plaintiffs; however, the contents of the No Injury, Other Injuries, and [Quick Injuries] fields are specific to the plaintiff listed in the Select Plaintiff field. This means there may effectively be multiple copies of each of these fields, one for each plaintiff in the case, but only the copy for the selected plaintiff is visible at any given time. When the case is created, the injuries recorded for each plaintiff will be added to the case file, regardless of which plaintiff's injuries are visible at the time the case is created.
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