Trying to work with an insurance company who is responsible for paying for injuries you received because of a careless individual is difficult without the help an auto accident law firm. The insurance company will provide you with a lot of misleading information and attempt to get you to sign a settlement agreement for the damages before you have been released by your physician. They will call you within the first two days after an accident and request your permission to tape record the telephone conversation.
A victim needs to contact a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible after an accident and should never let the insurance company record their telephone call. After a serious accident has occurred, victims are usually traumatized, in pain, and taking some type of muscle relaxer or pain medication. Any information that is recorded on a telephone call can be used against them during the settlement procedure.
How Can the Attorney Help?
An attorney will only answer the questions that the insurance company needs. The insurance company will try to obtain information about the victim to calculate their financial situation and know if they would settle quickly. However, an attorney will preserve the necessary evidence that could be altered or lost by the opposing party.
An example of lost evidence or altered evidence is after a trucking accident. An attorney will preserve the driver’s log, maintenance history on the truck, and make sure the truck is not driven until it has been inspected. The recorder in the truck will reset after an accident when it is driven again, and the information in the recorder is critical to winning a case.
Compensation
A victim is entitled to receive compensation for lost wages, medical bills, pain, suffering, personal property loss, loss of enjoyment of life and much more. An auto accident law firm will aggressively work to obtain the highest settlement possible for the case. If the insurance company will not agree to a fair settlement, the attorney will file a lawsuit in court.
It is important for you to focus on recovering from your injuries and leave the paperwork and negotiation to an attorney. For more information, please feel free to visit our website.
