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What to Do If the Insurance Company Calls You Before You Hire an Attorney
Go to What to Do If the Insurance Company Calls You Before You Hire an AttorneyIt is not uncommon for insurance companies to have their adjusters call people who are involved in an auto crash shortly after the accident. Insurance companies do this to try to get a statement from you as to whether you are injured within a few hours of the crash. Insurance companies are well aware that…
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Why do some cars show more property damage than others? Why isn’t the amount of property damage what determines if a person was injured in a crash?
Go to Why do some cars show more property damage than others? Why isn’t the amount of property damage what determines if a person was injured in a crash?The reason that many cars show visible property damage is because of the way car manufacturers design them for safety. Many vehicles are designed so that particular parts on the vehicle will crack and break off in a crash in order to deflect the impact of the crash away from where the passengers are located…
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What If there is much more damage to the vehicle that caused the accident than to your own car? How can that affect your case?
Go to What If there is much more damage to the vehicle that caused the accident than to your own car? How can that affect your case?Some jurors in accident cases believe in the myth that property damage equals injury. This means that jurors likely will believe that unless your vehicle sustained substantial property damage, you were not injured. Ironically, this commonly-held belief is refuted entirely by the body of medical and scientific evidence that has been developed over years regarding…
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Why the Body Shop’s Damage Photos Can Help Your Case
Go to Why the Body Shop’s Damage Photos Can Help Your CaseBody shops take pictures of the entire damage, often storing those photographs on a computer. Later, if the insurance company has any questions about the actual damage to the vehicle, the body shop can email or mail photos of the car to support their findings. These photos are critically important to your case, if you…
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Does the Amount of Property Damage to Your Car Matter in Your Injury Case and What Myths Do People Presume to be True?
Go to Does the Amount of Property Damage to Your Car Matter in Your Injury Case and What Myths Do People Presume to be True?According to medical documentation provided by neurologists and orthopedists, there is no direct correlation between the amount of property damage in an accident and the type and severity of injuries received. Everyone has a different injury tolerance, and it is very common for two people who experience the same accident to have different injuries. That…
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Traffic Deaths Increase in 2012
Go to Traffic Deaths Increase in 2012Traffic deaths in the United States have jumped almost 14% this year alone. This is in contrast to a decrease in traffic deaths over the last 5 years. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration estimated that approximately 7,630 people have died in the first three months of 2012, up from 6,720 in the first…
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Insurance Company Doctor’s Exams: How do you keep their Doctor From Misleading a Jury?
Go to Insurance Company Doctor’s Exams: How do you keep their Doctor From Misleading a Jury?Your attorney should then hire an investigator to video tape the actual Compulsory Medical Examination by the insurance company’s doctor. Many of these doctors, because they are on the side of the insurance company and make hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year, will add things that never happened or attribute things…
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How do you Prepare for a Compulsory Medical Examination?
Go to How do you Prepare for a Compulsory Medical Examination?First, you need to set an appointment with your attorney to go over your case. All attorneys should take the initiative and make an appointment to meet with their client the day before a Compulsory Medical Examination. Your attorney should go through your medical records, your pain complaints, go over your deposition testimony and your…
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What is a Compulsory Medical Examination and Why it’s Important to Your Case?
Go to What is a Compulsory Medical Examination and Why it’s Important to Your Case?Compulsory Medical Examinations are deceivingly called Independent Medical Examinations by defense attorneys. You should know there is nothing independent about these examinations. Compulsory Medical Examinations are provided under laws of civil procedure 1.280. It allows the defense attorney to hire a doctor to do a physical examination of an injured party, review medical records, review…
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What is Mediation and How Can it Effect Your Car Accident Case
Go to What is Mediation and How Can it Effect Your Car Accident CaseMediation is where both sides will agree on an independent third party mediator and go to his or her office. Both sides, the injured plaintiff and the defendant will then talk about the pluses and minuses of their cases and then separate into two different rooms. The mediator will try to get each side to…
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How You Appear, Speak, Act at a Deposition and How that Can Affect Your Case
Go to How You Appear, Speak, Act at a Deposition and How that Can Affect Your CaseHow you look and dress is very important for a deposition and may require some preparation. Everyone should dress comfortably and appropriately for a deposition. I would not suggest for a man to wear a suit or a woman to wear uncomfortable clothing to a deposition if they did not dress like this in their…
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Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury Case
Go to Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury CaseAn area you will need to prepare for before deposition is to know and understand the details of your injuries and medical treatment, including when you first experienced pain and to what areas of your body. For example, did you experience back or neck pain at the scene, did you chose to go to the…
