Colorado Auto Personal Injury
What you should know!
Personal injury as defined by Wikipedia is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property. The term is most commonly used to refer to a type of tort lawsuit alleging that the plaintiff's injury has been caused by the negligence of another, but also arises in defamation torts.
You have been injured in an auto accident and you are looking for information on the web for auto crash information that is going to tell you what you need to do and they all say get immediate medical help and then get yourself a good Colorado Personal Injury lawyer that specializes in auto accidents.
You go to the ER and they do their thing and then they cut you loose if you are lucky enough not to have a really serious injury and there you are outside the hospital and wonder OK what next?
You might be feeling that you won the lottery and most everyone will tell you no, what you won is a lot of work to try and get your self made whole again, by this we mean back at the state where you were before the car crash happened financially and most importantly mentally and physically, and for many the sad truth is you might not get back to where you were.
First things first, get medical help, and get it quickly if you wait for too long after the accident to go and see someone this can be used against you, as the defense lawyers will argue, we have been told, that you must not have been really hurt if you waited so long. Whiplash can have symptoms appear later and they can get worse with time.
The Insurance company that is the most likely defendant is going to want to talk to you and get you to make a recorded statement, which makes sense, but what you find out often too late is that you can protect your rights by politely saying something along these lines "please send me the questions that you would like me to answer and I will respond to them in a thoughtful manner, as I want to make sure that the record is correct and complete." Most Likely they are still going to call you and try to get a recorded statement from you, they might say something like this will only take a minute, or some other seemingly innocent reason for you to submit to their request. If you are not a lawyer and certainly if you are on pain med's and or if you are still processing the trauma, you are at a real disadvantage if you talk to them with out legal representation, and many a person has not heeded this suggestion to their detriment.
Remember to document and get receipts for everything. Write down what happened as soon as you can, include every thing that you can. You might also start a daily journal, a written record of everything that the accident has made different in your life, be sure to indicate your pain and discomfort levels and all the ways that your life has been negatively impacted. Keep a master file for yourself! Don't get caught without a backup, as you all ready to painfully know, accidents happen, and you don't want your paper trail to disappear.
Do not sign anything that the insurance company might ask you to sign without someone trained in the law reviewing it first, as you may unwittingly be giving up rights , if you do, as we understand it, there might be some recourse but that will be another long process that you would like to avoid if possible..
One of the tricky things that they will do is send you a settlement check very early on, if you cash it you are done, you have no recourse in most cases to recover more money if the injury is not healed or if you discover additional losses that would be attributable to the car wreck.
Emergency room doctors and regular medical doctors are not going to recommend that you see chiropractors or mental health specialists in our experience, if you feel like you might need their services, do not hesitate go and talk to them, many will take your case on a lien, if you need their help, which means that they will collect after the treatment is done even if it should turn out that you pay for a visit and you pay it out of your own pocket, it will give you, most likely, some peace of mind that you are covering all of your bases, with the goal again to get back to being made whole.
In Colorado many personal injury law firms will not take you case on contingencies unless you have a ongoing treatment plan needed, as the dollar amounts are not worth their time. They will not come out and say directly that you should go see a chiropractor.
Some of the best advise is going to come from people who have gone through the process, listen to their suggestions and learn from their mistakes and the best of luck in your pursuit of being made whole again.
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