Q: medical malpractice question.I have adopted a girl from DCF / Florida.Issue is she was abused before we adopted her and
it was the medical doctors / hospitals failure that cause damages.Now we have a lawyer and are filing suite against medical doctors and hospitals.Only question I have is, our lawyers are asking us personal history questions going back 10 years.Is this legal? Is it nessary that I fill out where my wife and me went to school in elementary that was 30 years ago.The damages to my little girl happend before we adopted her under DCF care.Do we as a client have the right to withhold any personal information as we please?
A: If you cannot be truthful with your own attorney, they may not take the case. The problem is that these insurance company defense lawyers are going to look into your entire lives, and they can do that. You need to let your attorney know about anything that the other side might bring up, beforehand so that they have time to formulate theories.
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