Car accident - may need legal help

Have you talked to your insurance company? Maybe they would sue the other guy's insurance company for you.

 

Be careful, Karen might ask you to drive her car more often!

 

You need an attorney. Your insurance company will subrogate on your behalf to obtain reimbursement of medical expenses or property damage that they had to pay to make you whole (up to your limits). Get an attorney as soon as possible. I strongly suggest you see a specialist regarding your neck and back. I'm not a doctor, but I had similar problems and was diagnosed with whip lash. The other guy's insurance company will not take you serious until you get an attorney. Do not sign ANYTHING! See your doctor asap if you are in pain and get a lawyer NOW.

You also may want to seek deminition (spelling) of value, an additional consideration for high-end vehicles that become damaged and repairs are unable to bring the car back to "full value" (what it was worth prior to the accident). This is obviously secondary to any physical injury claims that the insurance company will be in a big hurry to settle. Remember, the other guy's adjuster gets paid to keep your claim at a bare minimum--he's not there to help you!

 

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Sorry to hear about that Rob, I hope everything gets better.

 

Good advice. Hope you feel better soon!

 

Pain and treatment can drag out on the medical end. Best to have a good attorney and try to get the car damage settled quickly and make sure you have as long as you need on the medical end. My wife has dealt with this, thankfully on nothing too serious.

 

Rob, take care of that back and neck, you only have one spine. It is more than likely inflamed, irritated and over the counter items just isn't going to do the job. I hope you get good doc advice and even more so, a speedy recovery.

 

I rear ended a Geo Metro beater a while back , just dented the rear bumer slightly.
My Insurance company said they settled for 10K. Insane !

 

Don't tell them what your weekend hobby is! Will only make things more difficult.

 

Call your friend Jano for all your bodywork needs.....

 

Rob,

I am a PI attorney. I understand that you may not care for us, but just like most unsavory creatures on earth, we are necessary!

The advice you received above is pretty much spot on. I am glad to hear that you hired an attorney...there is a lot more to "managing this process" than meets the eye.

The only thing I would recommend is that you DO NOT participate in the upcoming rally. Your participation will call in to question the seriousness of your injuries. Also, should something unfortunate occur (knock on wood), the insurance company will challenge not only the extent of your original injuries, but whether or not they should be held responsible for any aggravation of your original injuries that occurred as a result of your activities (and you can only imagine how tedious/subjective this process can become).

For instance, suppose you continue to have problems with your back & you return to the doctor...lets say the doctor does an MRI of your lumbar spine and finds that you actually herniated a disc as a result of this rearend accident (not at all uncommon)...if you in fact participate in this rally, you know what the Insurance company is going to say???? You can probably guess....Furthermore, (and I have had this happen to me) you don't want to be in the middle of settling this claim and the attorney for the insurance company whips out a video of you haulin' azz around a race track a couple of weeks after you made a claim for personal injuries to your neck & back.

Rob, if you can help it, only participate in the upcoming Rally if you feel you are (1) well enough to do so, and (2) feel that you have recovered to the point that driving a car in a rally will not worsen your injuries.

Good luck.

Bottom Feeder

 

Perhaps the most offensive of all folks who bring lawsuits are those who say this. Don't you know that soft tissue injuries and "ambulance chasing" car wreck attorneys are what you are talking about? I suppose it does make a difference when its you or your family that has been hurt.

There never was anything wrong with the court system in this country and its just been made the whipping boy of extremism.

I'm a PI lawyer and am so sick of the notion of "frivolous" lawsuits are what we deal in. Gee, I'm sick of insurance companies who won't pay their legal obligations because they've been successful in vilifying the only ones who made them pay in the first place.

 

I would also appreciate an attorney referral. My accident does not include injuries, but I am being bounced around by the other two offending parties insurance carriers. I have reached the point of stalemate and frustration, so I need to move forward. Any referral or reference would be helpful.

Thanks,

Rick Nichols

 

If you go to a chiropractor when you are not injured, is that not a frivilous claim?

If you unnecessarily run up medical expenses like x-rays, MRIs & CT-Scans to increase the dollar amount of your settlement, is that not fraud?

If your lawyer directs your medical "treatment" instead of your health provider...

If your lawyer selects your health provider due to an on-going "business" relationship between the two...

Is it any wonder that Juries across Texas repeatedly render one "Plaintiff take nothing" verdict after another every week with this type of nonsense going on?

 

I don't need anyone to help me with any medical claims, frivilous or otherwise. I need an attorney who can deal with these snake in the grass insurance companies and adjusters who want to screw me over for an accident in which I have no fault. If you can refer me to someone, then thank you, but if not, no thank you.

 

Folks, I was rear-ended in 1994, the hit was so light it barely scraped the paint, but the problem was the shock transmitted to my body - the car made a pretty good lurch when it was hit, and I got a whiplash that I thought was quite unbelievable, it bothered me for almost 2 years. I felt nothing for about 2 hours after the hit, and then my neck loosened up and I felt like a giraffe. A few days later it tightened up on me so much I couldn't turn my head.

I always thought crazy people looking for a handout were the ones claiming 'whiplash', until I was a victim of it. I didn't go after any money, I just wanted them to cover the expense of therapy to my neck, that's all. They did, but I had to hire a lawyer to get it done.