It’s another slow sunrise. You awaken with last night still weighing down on your eyes, and you go through your morning routine partly asleep. You finally walk out the door with a slice of toast and a to-go cup of coffee and head to your job. Traffic, as usual, is slow. You are doing your everyday thing, changing radio stations and drinking coffee to keep rush hour from driving you crazy. As you go across an intersection at the beginning of a yellow, the vehicle in front of you slams to a halt and you do the same, when WHAM! From nowhere a purple sedan slams into your passenger side sending your vehicle flying into the sidewalk.
Not an unbelievable story, actually almost certainly something we have all experienced short of the accident. It could happen to anyone. If you’re blessed, the collision may be a minor bump or grazing blow that results in no injuries. But what if you do have! hurt?
The course from there will become miserable and hectic. Insurance companies from both sides will try to get around having to pay premiums, and will go to great lengths to do so. You may possibly be interrogated by the other person’s indemnity company’s attorneys or adjusters and asked barbed questions: “Wasn’t the light in fact red when you entered the intersection?” “Did you really need to halt that fast?” “How much attention were you actually paying?”
You do not want to go toe to toe with an indemnity company, and you do not have to. Personal injury attorneys exist for this purpose, to defend you following an auto accident. They can speak to all involved parties on your behalf and let you take it easy and mend. The claim process can be handled out of view, and hopefully out of mind by your representation.
Don’t take a chance if you are injured in an auto accident. Hire a personal injury lawyer to ensure you don’t get worked over by the indemnity companies. It’s simply an additional kind of insurance – as well as one you can’t afford not to have!
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