While your personal injury attorney will take care of the details of your personal injury claim, you will strengthen your case by following the advice listed here. These tips alone could increase the size of your settlement.
Be sure and get the names in writing of any witnesses to your accident.
You may need their testimony at a later date and this will provide valuable third-party assessments of your accident.
As mentioned in other sections of this site, it is NOT WISE to talk to the other party’s insurance company.
You may unintentionally weaken your case.
Do NOT down play your symptoms with your physician. Honestly relate to your doctor every symptom you are experiencing!
For example, if you see your doctor following a car accident and talk to him about how bad your back is hurting, but fail to mention you also have a sore neck, the doctor’s testimony later on will hurt your whiplash case because you did not mention it at the time. Many symptoms become worse days and weeks after an accident. Do not be dishonest or exaggerate symptoms, but once again, be honest with your doctor about ALL symptoms.
Be honest with the doctor about any problems you had BEFORE the accident.
They need a complete picture and it is to your benefit to share this information with them. The insurance company may show up with medical records that indicate symptoms of a bad back 3 to 5 years prior. This will put your doctor in a tough spot if you did not mention this to him.
Take lots of pictures.
Get as many pictures as you can of the spot where you were injured, or in the case of an auto injury, the car in which you were injured. Sometimes the opportunity is lost when the car is moved or demolished before your case is settled or goes to trial.
Take photos of any bruises or scars immediately following your injury and as they develop.
In some cases, the bruises or scars may fade or disappear within a few days, perhaps even before you hire a personal injury attorney. Your ability to demonstrate your physical injury via photos may be lost.
Contact our personal injury attorneys soon after being seen by medical personnel.
A personal injury attorney will take the pictures, police report, and schematic of the accident and conduct a thorough investigation while the evidence still exists. When you hire a personal injury lawyer right away, the insurance company knows you are serious.
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