When an injury happens, it changes lives. If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident you should contact an Attorney immediately to see what legal remedies may be available to you. An accident can prevent you from returning to work and take away from your quality of life. You may be responsible for medical bills or ongoing treatment and may not be able to participate in some of the activities you enjoyed prior to the accident.
It’s important that the events of an accident or the events leading up to an accident are memorialized before the evidence potentially disappears or is no longer available. The accident scene should be photographed and often times it’s a good idea to have an expert accident reconstructionist go to the scene and record or preserve whatever evidence may be available.
It’s also very important that you receive the standard of medical care that best facilitates your full recovery. There are often times several avenues of insurance coverage. If you are a passenger in a vehicle and are injured, hopefully the driver’s insurance coverage is available to the passenger but sometimes the driver has no coverage, what then? It’s important that all persons carry some amount of Uninsured Motorist coverage. What Uninsured Motorist coverage does is protect you against a negligent operator who doesn’t have sufficient coverage or no insurance coverage at all.
It’s very important to have an experienced Attorney review the facts of your case. If you have been involved in an accident, there is a multitude of negligence and coverage issues, and the expertise of an experienced Lawyer is critical.
We have only briefly touched upon a few of the issues here that are always relevant in every personal injury case, but there is a multitude of issues and complicated facts that you should be aware of when an accident happens. If you or a loved one have been involved in any kind of accident that has caused injury or death, please don’t hesitate to call us, and we will immediately help you evaluate your options.