Your Injury Attorney Does More Than Get You Compensation
If you are injured in an accident, you may think about hiring a personal injury attorney to get yourself compensation. You want to be reimbursed for your financial losses, and also compensated for your pain and suffering and loss of the quality of your life.
A good injury attorney can do that for you. But you actually hire a personal injury attorney for much more than that. During the course of your injury claim or lawsuit, there are a lot of things that a personal injury can do to help you, which you may not have even thought of, and which may not directly have anything to do with compensation for your physical or emotional injuries.
Property Damage
If you were injured in a car accident, you now have a damaged car. Sure, you have property insurance. But will they pay you what it takes to fix the car? What if they just want to total it but you don’t? And even if they do exactly what you want, do you really have time to be dealing with insurance adjusters?
A good injury attorney will help you manage your property damage claim, in addition to claims for your injuries and other financial losses.
Managing the Parties Involved
After an accident, you may get a whole lot of people trying to contact you. The Defendant itself may try to reach out to you. Your own insurance, whether it be your car insurance or health insurance, will be asking you questions about the accident, as will insurance for the negligent party.
They may want information, statements, pictures or documents. Some of these parties may be there to help you like your own insurance, but others may not.
A good injury attorney can keep all these parties straight, and get them the information they need, without bothering you. A good injury attorney also knows what information they have a right to ask you for, and get, and what information they aren’t allowed to get.
Who Else is Liable?
Sure, you made a claim on the party that you see as being negligent, which caused your injuries. But is that the only party liable?
In many kinds of accidents, there may be more entities, businesses, or people that owe you compensation. A good injury attorney doesn’t just make a claim against who you say to make a claim against—he or she will look to see if there are other entities, who you may not have even thought of, who may owe you compensation. This can possibly increase your overall settlement or verdict.
Access to Professionals
In some cases, you may need experts to help evaluate your case. Or, you may need access to doctors who you can’t immediately pay. How will you access these professionals?
Your injury attorney should be able to help you get to your doctors, or see specialists, or hire individual experts. These are professionals that you may have a difficult time accessing, on your own.
Find out all the ways we can help you after you’re injured in an accident. Schedule a consultation with the Tampa personal injury lawyers at Barbas, Nunez, Sanders, Butler & Hovsepian today for help after your accident.
