Vehicle Related Claims

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Motor Vehicle Related Claims

Our firm handles motor vehicle related claims including accidents involving other vehicles, motorcycles, trucks, bicyclists and pedestrians. Many lawyers handle motor vehicle accidents, but not very many lawyers have successful winning verdicts. Many states, like Kansas, require that a person reach a threshold of a certain monetary amount of medical bills or have permanent disability in order to qualify to bring a claim for pain and suffering or mental anguish claims.

Insurance company adjusters attempt to take a statement from a claimant who has suffered injuries quickly after an accident when a person does not yet know how extensive their injuries are. Besides this reason, the adjuster will try to have you say something in response to a leading question that will make you appear at fault when you are not. Later on, when it is time to settle they will use your words against you claiming that you have some level of comparative fault. A third reason they will take your statement is to find out if you have any pre-existing conditions. The purpose of the inquiry is to try to shift the blame for the accident somewhere besides at their insured.

Many insurance companies reward their adjusters with bonuses, vacations, and performance evaluations by how efficient the adjuster is at quick contact with an injured person to keep them from a lawyer. They also measure how efficient they are at taking statements of injured persons to reduce or eliminate your claim. They measure the adjusters’s ability to settle claims out for less than the fair value. The adjuster conceals from you the fact that they are rewarded for taking away your legal rights.

If you have medical injuries then it is important that you seek medical care immediately. Insurance companies look for delays in seeking treatment or gaps between treatment as a basis to deny your claim, whether they have a valid basis or not.

It is the insurance company’s goal to settle your claim for the lowest amount that you will take. The adjuster’s performance in keeping claim payouts low is tracked by management and the adjuster can lose their job if they pay too much. Sometimes, paying the fair value of a claim is way too much.

When you sign an insurance company release that allows them to get information of a private nature about you, you’re giving up substantial rights. You should seek the advice of an attorney before signing a release.

In many cases you may have uninsured or underinsured motorist benefits. If you are injured by someone with no insurance then you may be able to proceed against your own policy for uninsured motorist benefits. If you are injured by someone with limits of insurance on their vehicle that are less than the limits of underinsured motorist benefits on your policy and your injuries are large enough to warrant a claim for underinsured motorist benefits then you can proceed against your own company. In certain cases you may be able to get additional underinsured benefits from someone you live with even if you are not a named insured on the policy.

In no-fault states like Kansas insurance companies will request that they be paid back for any medical or wage loss benefits that they pay out to you during the handling of your claim. They will require the defendant’s insurance company pay them back at the time of settlement. Under certain limited circumstances they are not entitled to be paid back even though the adjuster claims they should be. You should always seek the advice of counsel when they state they should be paid back.

Before speaking to any insurance company adjuster or investigator you should always obtain the advice of a lawyer.

The statute of limitations is a legal doctrine that bars the injured person from recovery after a certain period of time. This varies greatly by state, type of claim, age and competency of the injured party and many other factors. To determine how long the statute of limitations is for your claim you need to speak to a lawyer and provide the facts which are particular to your case.

Insurance companies have used negative impact stories on television like Sixty Minutes and other similar shows trying to place into the mind of the public that all plaintiffs area fraudulent. This propaganda causes juries to be suspect in every case. Jury selection is an extremely difficult process. Your case is won or lost by the chosen people on your jury. Our lawyers study the demographics and psychographics of the jury selection process and have studied the various psychological studies involving jury behavior that helps us identify who will be an ideal juror for your case. A jury of your true peers is always difficult to obtain.

All lawyers are not the same. Many treat the jury selection process as a routine unimportant process. Those lawyers lose cases frequently. A lawyer that cannot connect with the jury will lose your case. There are many varying factors that make a case become a winning or losing case. Before choosing your lawyer you need to find out if the lawyer really knows how to try a case and has actually won several cases. If a lawyer has never won a verdict over a million dollars then the lawyer may be less skilled than the lawyers who are skilled enough to get multimillion dollar verdicts. Our firm has the ability to do that. Not every case is worth a million dollars but with the right liability and damages this is not an unrealistic goal. We never charge any fees or expenses unless we win your case.

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