{"id":132,"date":"2020-10-02T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T20:38:24","slug":"can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Can A Pre-Existing Injury Affect My Personal Injury Claim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/personal-injury\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Personal Injury<\/a> | October 2, 2020<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim.jpg\" alt=\"How a Pre-existing Injury Affect A Personal Injury Claim\" \/><br \/>\nIf you or a loved one have been injured in an accident caused by the careless or negligent actions of somebody else, you should be entitled to compensation for your losses. However, if you have a pre-existing condition or have sustained an injury in the past, this could lead to complications when you are working to obtain the compensation you are entitled to. Here, our <a href=\"\/chicago-personal-injury-attorney\/\">Chicago personal injury lawyers<\/a> want to discuss how at-fault parties and insurance carriers may be able to use pre-existing conditions against you in your personal injury claim.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Would A Pre-existing Injury Affect A Personal Injury Claim?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can A Pre-Existing Injury Affect My Personal Injury Claim?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Injury | October 2, 2020 If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident caused by the careless or negligent actions of somebody else, you should be entitled to compensation for your losses. However, if you have a pre-existing condition or have sustained an injury in the past, this could lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do Pre-Existing Conditions Affect Personal Injury Claims?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the state of Illinois, the law states that you are rightfully owed compensation regardless of your pre-existing condition.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Do Pre-Existing Conditions Affect Personal Injury Claims?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In the state of Illinois, the law states that you are rightfully owed compensation regardless of your pre-existing condition.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/can-a-pre-existing-injury-affect-my-personal-injury-claim.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Seidman, Margulis &amp; 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