Understanding the Risks of Not Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney After Your Car Accident

 Posted on May 22, 2023 in Car Accident

Nobody gets behind the wheel of a car and expects to get into a car accident. Unfortunately, car accidents remain prevalent in our society for various reasons. After a car accident resulting in serious injuries, you will no doubt find the experience overwhelming.  Doctors and other medical providers, including your own long time family doctor, will likely not see you because they do not want to become involved in a motor vehicle accident case.  If you have health insurance, you will learn that your health insurance provider will attempt to shirk responsibility and have you deal with the auto insurance carrier, who will not consider a dime until all treatment is concluded and a demand is made. If the health insurance company will agree to pay for crash related medical treatment, it will insist on all payments made being returned to it via a legal concept called subrogation.  

In a nutshell, finding qualified medical treatment alone is a nightmare.  Moreover, you will have sophisticated adjusters calling to attempt to take recorded statements from you in order to create liability issues, lock you into a narrative and minimize your damages and create causation issues by discussing all of your prior medical history.  

When car accident victims delay in calling us until after they fail on their own, their cases are severely compromised by mistakes. Consequently, it makes our job far more difficult, if not impossible, to help them. The best advice is to turn to qualified personal injury counsel immediately so you can focus on healing your body and mind while we take care of everything else.  When we receive a case within the first month of the crash, we can typically create more than 10 times the claim value than we can if we receive the case after the client has finished medical treatment on their own. 

What Can Happen if You Do Not Hire an Attorney for Your Car Accident Case?

If you choose not to hire a personal injury attorney to represent you, you will be forced, as a lay person, to handle the claims process on your own vs. very skilled adjusters and defense attorneys. You will need to negotiate with the insurance company to settle your claim. Insurance companies are businesses whose primary goal is increase premiums and minimize claims payouts. Insurance companies have teams of lawyers and adjusters skilled at devaluing claims, forcing victims to settle their claims at far less than they are worth.

Without an attorney, you will be entirely unaware of how to preserve evidence critical to your case, in addition to how to create full value for your claim, much less understand what the full value of your claim is or could be. 

Qualified personal injury attorneys like Burress Injury Law gather evidence from the scene, crashed vehicles, eyewitnesses, video surveillance and directly from the defense such as their phone records, credit card statements and trucking logs. Evidence that a qualified personal injury law firm can obtain is critical to build your value for your claim. Burress Injury Law can also help you obtain necessary medical treatment from medical providers, including specialists such as orthopedists, neurologists, imaging providers, physical and occupational therapists, functional massage therapists, ENTs, etc. without any upfront payment from you in your time of need. Then, we use our vast experience to negotiate full value settlements for your claim. If the insurance company is not fair, we take the case to trial where a jury of your peers can award full value for your damages and losses. 

After the case is over, the team at Burress Injury Law work tirelessly to reduce or eliminate paybacks to medical providers, health insurance companies and auto insurance companies (such as Medpay, which must be repaid to your own carrier if a third party recovery is obtained absent a waiver). Many times, our law firm can make up our entire fee by just the money we save the client on reductions of medical expenses and subrogation interests!

If you handle your claim independently and the insurance company denies your claim, or grossly undervalues your claim (and this is a given), you will be forced to file a lawsuit to recover damages. This is an extremely complicated process in which a lay person has no chance to compete with experienced defense lawyers and skilled adjusters. if you miss one deadline, you can lose your right to recover damages forever. 

Contact a Collin County Car Accident Attorney

Contact the knowledgeable McKinney car accident lawyers with Burress Injury Law. Please call us at 214-726-0016 for a completely free case analysis.

Source:

 https://www.progressive.com/answers/what-to-do-after-car-accident/