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Do I Need A Williamsburg Personal Injury Attorney To Settle My Case?
You've got a case as far as you're concerned, but here's the next big question - do you need a Williamsburg Virginia personal injury attorney or not? This is hands down one of the top questions we get from anyone and everyone contacting us!
Don’t fall victim to all of the silly lawyer advertising, and end up taking on an unnecessary expense. The insurance companies won't help you either, at best they’ll leave you with a policy that has gaps in coverage. What you should do is take some time to do your own research, and before you sign any forms with a personal injury attorney make sure you get their books to guide you. The best Williamsburg Personal Injury Attorneys will have these for free.
Look, there’s a chance you can handle your own Williamsburg Virginia Personal Injury Case, but there’s a few things you need to be sure of.
One is that you’ve had some limited duration of medical care. So when you were in an accident, you either went to the Emergency Department in Williamsburg or you saw your primary care physician shortly after the car accident. You had some physical therapy or some follow-up treatment and then you were discharged. When you were discharged from care, it was a smooth and full recovery.
And second, these cases that contend to be settled with an attorney of those cases, in which there’s no real dispute as to who was at fault.
The other situations in which you may be able to settle the case without a Williamsburg Virginia personal injury attorney are where the damages greatly exceed the insurance coverage. Now this can be a little bit tricky but let’s say that you were in a serious accident, you were in the intensive care unit. Maybe you have $100,000.00 of medical bills and maybe the defendant, either was uninsured or had minimal coverage. That would be a situation where you can collect what is due on your own.
Now there are certainly some questions you need to ask but if you are absolutely convinced that the maximum amount of coverage available is less than the injuries. You looked at your own uninsured motorist coverage, you’ve looked for umbrella coverage and it’s just not there. Make sure you’re looking over everything carefully I know these policies can be long and confusing!
Then, you really don’t need an attorney; you certainly don’t need an attorney that's going to take 33 or 40% of your claim just to settle a case that is greatly in excess of the coverage limit. And – you know it’s a shame but I see a fair number of cases each year where attorneys are taking a full fee when they ended up not have to do a whole lot with the case because the coverage was so low.
So we’ve got a video on how to protect yourself by buying uninsured motorist coverage but that’s really not what we’re talking about today.
The more complicated your personal injury is, the more likely it is that a Williamsburg Virginia personal injury attorney is going to be able to add value for you. He or she if they are an experienced Board Certified Personal Injury Attorney will have a lot of experience evaluating and handling cases like yours in the Williamsburg area. See it really doesn’t matter what your aunt in California got for her personal injury, what your lawyer will be able to do in your specific geographic area an estimate for you the value – the value of your case, and what a jury is likely to do, should your case, go to trial.
Well in most of those cases, it makes a lot more sense to go out and hire a Board Certified specialist in your area than to try to settle the case on your own. There are certainly are a lot of pitfalls that you can fall into. Just remember when you do settle your case, that’s it. If you need more care or more treatment in the future, you generally will have closure claim and wage your right to ask for more money later.
So the bottom line is no, you don’t need a Williamsburg Virginia personal Injury Attorney to handle every case. Many of us in the smaller cases will meet with you and coach you through the process a bit if that’s all it takes. Most personal injury attorneys will meet with you at least on – in initial consultation basis for free and you should access that. That’s a terrific resource for you!
For more useful legal information click on this link to access a free sample chapter of The Five Deadly Sins That Can Wreck Your Injury Claim.
If you have a question for Ben, you can submit it confidentially online at JustAskBenGlass.com.
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