Year: 2015
The key to success in any battle between David and Goliath – between an underdog and a perennial power – is a focused approach. If you do not concentrate your skills and resources, you are destined to fail. You will be outmuscled or outgunned. In these future writings,…
Mistake #7: Waiting to see a doctor or a healthcare provider after a personal injury or accident. This situation happens far too often in personal injury, wrongful death and accident cases and leads to surprisingly heartrending tragedies. Here is a true story to illustrate the dangers here. A…
Mistake #6: Providing Estimates of Your Damages How much do you think it will take to fix your car or truck, as Goliath routinely omits or refuses to pay the full value of your automobile wreck or repair your automobile? How much medical care do you imagine that…
Mistake #5: Trusting Goliath’s “good intentions” As much as we keep stressing Goliath’s self-interestedness, we are not trying to say that personal injury and bodily injury insurance adjusters are bad people. It is just that the goal of the insurer is to keep and make as much money…
Mistake #4: Jumping to take Goliath’s offer to settle their personal injury, wrongful death or accident case. As we keep harping on, insurance companies know all the psychological tricks in the book. Goliath might come back to you multiple times with different escalating offers and finally give you…
Mistake #3: Failing to keep effective records This is a critical point that we will continue to hammer. You need to collect and remember as much information as you think might be necessary – even information that you think would only be glancingly relevant. Keep receipts, medical bills,…
Mistake #2: Making exaggerated demands (both asking too little … and asking too much) Goliath was not born yesterday. He knows what personal injury, wrongful death and accident cases like yours are worth. It is very unlikely he will offer you a full and fair amount to compensate…
Mistake #1: Providing statements As we have stated repeatedly, a personal injury and bodily injury insurance adjuster may try all sorts of ploys, tactics and psychological tricks to try to get you to talk about your personal injury and accident case. But much like how reality television producers…
The Actual Reality: Not true in the slightest. In fact, sometimes lawyers are the only people who can protect good people from being preyed upon by bad companies and an uncaring system. We are proud of the work we do. We also believe that what strengthens us is…
The Actual Reality: Why have insurance premiums gone up so much? The question is obviously a hotly debated one – and a crucial one. But the idea that we can blame premium hikes on personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits just does not fit with the evidence. Take…