Our Personal Injury Legal Blog

I don’t need to tell you that football is popular in the Great State of Alabama. We just so happen to be Paul “Bear” Bryant, Nick Saban, and University of Alabama football fans, but you also have the Auburn University...

Dothan, Alabama automobile wreck attorney Aaron Gartlan of the Gartlan Injury Law recently settled a claim, without litigation on behalf of a good, honest Alabama woman for injuries and damages that she sustained in an automobile collision, as a result...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...