Exacerbation vs Aggravation
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What is exacerbation?

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What is aggravation?

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A Highly Susceptible Plaintiff is:

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How can you prove exacerbation or aggravation?

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How is the apportionment of damages done in Aggravation/Exacerbation cases?

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Why does it even matter knowing the difference between Exacerbation, Aggravation and Highly susceptible?

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You have a client with a prior lumbar spine injury for which he was asymptomatic, he got into a car accident and now the client is complaining of lumbar back pain, images are done, months pass and the client is not better. You ask for the priors and compare, now his lumbar spine injury is worse than before, this can be considered an:

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You have a client with a prior medical history of osteoporosis (a disease that makes bones easier to break), while she was walking at Walmart she slips and falls and breaks 5 different bones. She could be considered a:

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Your client has a prior history of issues with her shoulder due to a sports injury, while shopping at Costco a box falls on her and hurts her shoulder, the client goes to the ER, conservative treatment is given, images are done and nothing new is found, she complaints of pain but after a couple session of Physical Therapy she's back to how she was before the accident. This can be considered a:

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Your client is driving home and gets rear ended, he starts complaining of headaches and blurry vision. He goes to the ER, signs with us and he ends up going to the neurologist. He is diagnosed with a TBI without any prior medical history of the same injury. This can be considered:

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