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well first thing you do obviously is
stay at the scene of the crash and
cooperate with the police uh make sure
you give them a statement if they ask
for it however don’t give a statement to
the adverse insurance company at all
until you consult with a lawyer you need
to consult with a lawyer up front
unfortunately insurance companies are
not necessarily solid citizens their job
is to save money off claims they’re not
interested in you or your life and what
they’re interested in doing is making
sure that they have a nice bottom line
next year when it comes time to to
declare their profits so talking to an
adverse adjuster is never beneficial
because the only thing they’re
attempting to do is get information to
devalue your claim and increase their
company’s profits so you stay away from
the adjuster also you get need to get
prompt medical care a lot of people make
the mistake of after getting involved in
a crash they don’t feel the pain right
away way so it’s like well maybe this
will get better maybe it’ll get better
and then of course a week later it
hasn’t gotten any better it’s gotten
much worse and they figured out gee
something’s wrong here I guess I better
see a doctor then they may call an
attorney because a lot of people don’t
have health insurance and if they don’t
have health insurance they don’t get to
see a doctor the doctor won’t see them
unless they’re represented by a lawyer
and there’s a reason for that lawyers
ensure that the doctors will get paid
after the claim is resolved
otherwise they don’t so they don’t
accept the patience so bottom line from
my standpoint
is first things first cooperate with the
police next thing if you need medical
care get it right away because the
adrenaline flow through your system you
don’t feel the pain right away don’t
assume it’s not there because it’s going
to be there the following morning or the
morning thereafter call an attorney come
in and talk to the attorney and the
reason you do that quite frankly you
don’t have time to mess with the
insurance company when it comes to
property damage which we handle to
communicate with them about your
injuries which we handle we do all of
those things for you and from the
client’s perspective the only thing they
need to do is treat and get well and
that’s what they should have to do treat
and get well that’s what only thing they
need to focus on when they’re with our
firm
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