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Vehicle Accidents

If you drive a motor vehicle, you’re required to carry insurance in order to protect yourself from financial liability if you’re found at fault in any vehicle accidents. The insurance companies charge you a premium every month that you must pay in order to legally drive.

If you are involved in an accident, the amount of coverage you elected when you signed up with your insurance carrier will determine the amount of money your insurance company will pay to the other person involved on your behalf.

Because insurance companies give your claim over to their adjusters, and the adjusters are in the business of paying out as little as possible for each claim, if you’re trying to collect an insurance settlement you may need to contact a lawyer if you want to receive all the compensation you deserve.

A lawyer can help you recover more than just the cost of fixing your vehicle. A lawyer can also help you recover funds for your medical expenses and sometimes even your legal fees.

What to do if you’re involved in a vehicle accident

Vehicle accidents are unexpected, and if you’re involved in one, the first thing you need to do is file a claim with your insurance company. Be sure to report any injuries to you insurance agent before you go to the doctor if possible.

Take photos of any damage to your vehicle, the scene and also your injuries.

During your communications with your insurance agent, you’ll want to take detailed notes regarding all conversations including the names of all representatives, phone numbers, job titles.

Make sure you know your policy limits and also the coverage amounts and details of what exactly is covered. Sometimes insurance companies will bet on you not knowing what exactly is covered in your policy, and they will try to tell you that what you are asking for is not covered by your policy. This is why it’s important to know what is covered by your policy.

What not to do if you’re involved in a vehicle accident

Because the insurance agents are going to want to pay you out as little as possible, don’t just automatically agree to accept the first estimate they give you. These estimates can be very low, and if you accept their offer, you can’t go back.

Ensure your best compensation

Since insurance companies can be sneaky and their policies are often confusing, your best option is going to be to contact a lawyer to help you through the process. An insurance lawyer will know exactly how the insurance companies try to wiggle out of paying you what you are owed. A lawyer can also read over your entire policy and understand the finer details that may be confusing to most people. With a lawyer on your side, your insurance company won’t be able to get away with lying about what is covered, and you’ll have your settlement much faster.

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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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