The Power of Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer

If you, or somebody that you care about, ever come into a situation where you are contemplating hiring a personal injury lawyer, there are a few things that you need to know. The first thing to keep in mind is that the insurance companies that will be covering the costs of your injuries and hospital bills will almost never have your best interests in mind. Their number one priority is to protect themselves, not you. With that in mind, it is always beneficial to hire an attorney to help sort things out and get the focus off of protecting them, to making sure that you are OK.

Red Tape and Loopholes

Most of the everyday citizens that populate our country are unaware of the structure of the laws that regulate their communities. Being unaware of the details that construct the laws is not stupidity. However, many of the attorneys that represent big-money insurance agencies depend on the ignorance of everyday people in order to thrive. The average person on the streets has never been to law school, and only knows a fragment of the way that the court system works.

An insurance company that wants to protect its assets can appear to be a friendly face of concern in the instance of a traumatic accident. They can appear as if they are the ones to be trusted as the experts in how much money you will be entitled to. Although it may seem like they are doing the right thing for you, it is possible that you would be leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table that would have been yours if you had hired an attorney.

Without an attorney on your side you will most likely be bombarded by red tape policies that hold you up in court, and loopholes that the insurance agencies will look for in order to lessen the magnitude of your injuries in the eyes of the court.

Your Lawyer is your Defender

When it comes to the personal injury realm things can get ugly. The extent of your injuries can be looked at from a matter of perspective if you allow them to. The other side of the argument will always try to minimize your injuries to the point where it seems as if you do not deserve a decent amount of compensation.

Your lawyer will be there, every step of the way, to defend you from the possibility of a crafty representative of the insurance company who wants to change the direction of the money that is available to you to themselves.

Since attorneys have to go through years of educational studies, then pass the Bar Exam in order to be able to practice law, it is obvious that they know a few more things about the way the system works than the average person. Your attorney will have the knowledge and the know-how to defend you from the sharks and keep the focus on helping you as opposed to defending the people that want to keep their money.

Critical Injuries

There are plenty of ways that a person can become injured at the hands of the negligence of another human being. For instance, a person could be walking down the sidewalk of a street, just minding their own business when a vehicle driven by a person distracted by their phone slams right into them.

Most of the time when there is a vehicle versus a pedestrian there are numerous critical injuries, and even death. These are horrible circumstances, but they could have been avoided if the person driving would have been paying attention to the road instead of being on their phone.

As sad as it is, this happens more than most people are aware of. Critical injuries will instantly change the life of the person that suffers from them. Excruciating pain. Exploratory surgeries. Extended hospitalization. Unable to earn a living. The list can go on depending on how extreme the injuries are.

In the event of critical injuries, an attorney will be able to handle much of the footwork that it takes behind the scenes to be able to provide pertinent medical information to the courts when it is time to go to court.

Itemized lists of the injuries, the cost of caring for them while in the hospital, the pain incurred from each, and so on will be crucial to the success of the case. If you do not have an attorney on your side through a time like this you could very well be under-compensated for your injuries and the damage that they caused in your life.

Personal Injuries

Are you aware that if you walk up the pathway to a home to knock on the door and you trip over a misplaced item in the walkway that you could sue the owner and their homeowner’s insurance will cover your costs? Although this is not a typical case, the fact that a person could be accused of negligence for the sheer fact that the path to their doorway is not safe speaks volumes about the way that everyday people are responsible for the environments that they live and work in.

Imagine driving down the highway in your vehicle about 75 miles per hour. There is a work truck ahead of you going around the same speed, or a little faster. They have a large ladder attached to a rack on the top of the truck that appears to be bouncing up and down a little in the wind.

Of course, you assume that it is tied down correctly and that it is just catching some turbulence from the wind so you keep moving along.

Suddenly, without even a hint of a warning that ladder shoots upward into the air and flips backward straight at your vehicle. Before you know it, with a crash it slams right into your windshield and pierces its way into your vehicle.

For the sake of extremities, we will say that it pierces your passenger side of the car and plows into your empty passenger seat. It could have just as easily slammed through your side of the windshield and plowed right into your face.

In any event, who’s fault would the accident be? Would it be yours for noticing movement on the ladder and failing to move out of the way, or warn the other driver? Or would it be the fault of the person who failed to tie it down properly before they decided to drive upwards of 75 miles per hour on the highway?

If this catastrophe caused you to swerve your vehicle into other traffic and you were injured as a result, then other people that were involved as well got injured…what do you think the insurance people for the truck with the ladder would try to say?

Please know that the other side of the argument would try to blame you for the accident and the injuries that were caused by it…including your own.

The Wisdom of an Attorney

In the event of a circumstance that we described above the only defense that you might have against accusations and claims such as these is to have an attorney on your side. Your attorney will know how to point out factors about the situation that would bring the attention off of you and focus it on the fact that the person driving the truck should have tied down the ladder correctly in the first place. Your attorney will know how to defend you, and how to turn the situation from a catastrophe to a triumph. This is the power that you have when you choose to hire a personal injury attorney.

Never try to defend yourself in court without an attorney. Know that the people on the other side of the argument will have their own attorneys. Unless you are an attorney yourself, you will never stand a chance.