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Car accidents occur every day, and thankfully many are just fender benders, and don’t create too much damage to the vehicles or people involved. There are, however, times when this is not the case and the car accident is more severe.

If you’ve been involved in a car accident, you might want to consider hiring an attorney to help you through the process of recovering your losses, and help you navigate the legal process to minimize your stress and expenses.

Because the outcome of your case depends on you following any and all of the rules set forth by your insurance company based on the policy you purchased, your outcome may vary to a large degree if you don’t know your rights, your responsibilities, and specifically what your policy covers.

What not to do after a car accident

After a car accident, make sure you don’t just accept the first claim that is offered. This will almost always be a lowball offer that may not adequately cover your damages.

Also, don’t sign anything at all without obtaining legal counsel. You may be asked to sign releases or waivers that will force you to accept a settlement that isn’t fair to you, and will waive your right to add to the claim later if you discover more damage in the process.

You should not trust car insurance companies

Car insurance companies are notorious for hoping their policy-holders don’t know what their policy is supposed to cover. For this reason, many insurance companies get away with denying claims that should have otherwise been paid out. They may deny your claim for no good reason, in hopes that you will be too tired to fight it.

This means that if you don’t understand your policy in full (most people don’t), and if you are unsure as to how to proceed when your insurance company denies your claim, you may lose your opportunity to recover the damages that are rightfully yours.

Hiring a car accident lawyer is your best protection

Depending on the specific circumstances of your case, you may be in a position where you are relying on your policy to cover some hefty damages. This means that without your insurance company paying these damages, if you had to pay them on your own, you’d be in serious debt for a very, very long time.

This is the exact reason why you need to hire a lawyer to handle your insurance claim for you. Insurance agents will respond differently to a lawyer than they will to the average person. The insurance companies know they can’t get away with anything while talking to a lawyer.

You want to hire a lawyer so you don’t end up navigating the system yourself. Don’t run the risk of owing large amounts of money to another party that could have been preventable with the help of a lawyer.

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Your Questions About The Law

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The short answer is yes, you should care because it’s going to affect the statute of limitations on your claim. It’s important to define what a political subdivision is that way, you know where your claim lies.

A subdivision is city, county, villages, schools, certain administrative agencies. All those are treated under the act differently. Now, if you do sustain an injury or an accident with one of those individuals that I’ve named, then you have one year from the date of your injury to file a written notice, written claim to that subdivision. If you don’t, then your claim is forever barred. Read More

That depends on you, specifically in regards to the length of time it takes for your injuries to improve, how long it takes to get to a point where we can reasonably determine what your future looks like, what additional medical care you require, the cost of such medical care and what permanent restrictions or impairments you have. Read More

The answer to that is almost universally no. The reason for that is the insurance companies like to get in early and offer you a lowball offer in the hopes that they can get you to sign a release of liability waiver. Once that happens, you’re out of luck.

The reason that they send these lowball offers is because you haven’t had a chance yet to properly evaluate your claim. You might still be treating, you might need future medical. There’s also the possibility that you’ve been permanently damaged and you need a doctor to assess that. Read More

Maximum medical improvement or MMI is the point in your injury where you’re about as good as you’re going to get which means you’re not likely to get much better and you’re not likely to get much worse.

It doesn’t mean that you’re all the way better and so for that reason, maximum medical improvement is the point at which your permanent disability benefits are determined. Read More

In order to answer that question, we have to know the specific facts of your case. A lot of factors go into the value of a workers’ compensation case.

First of all, money benefits that are paid to you are based on your wages before the accident. That amount is used then to determine both your temporary disability benefits and your permanent disability benefits. Read More

Yes, it can. In order to modify a child custody order, you have to show what’s called a material change in circumstances.

Now, simply stated what that means is something has to happen. An unanticipated change that if the judge or the parties knew about it when they made the original order, they would have decided differently. Read More

Well, it depends on two things.

First of all, who are you suing and second of all, what are you suing them for? If it’s just general negligence and you’re suing a private person or corporation, it’s four years from the date of accrual of the claim or the date of the accident. Read More

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