Most accident victims are beginning to realize that it’s absolutely ridiculous to assume that insurance companies are going to treat you fairly on their own, especially in these tough economic times. Most consumers have come to understand that most advertisements for lawyers are bad for consumers because they don’t provide any really useful information.
The insurance companies would love for you to give them a statement that is recorded, sign the medical authorization they have prepared, and simply accept their offer to let them to pay you a little something for pain and suffering before you know what your rights are.
Insurance companies are not only increasing their deductibles and premiums while reducing a large part of their modest liability coverage, they’re also spending large amounts of money in an effort to tilt the scales of law and justice in their favor. In fact, Insurance companies are spending millions of dollars to save many more millions by curbing the legal ability of personal injury, medical malpractice, and accident victims to recover just and fair compensation in a court of law.
The Insurance companies have already made substantial headway in influencing the legal system. For example, in some states insurance companies have made certain that the maximum recovery for an accident victim, no matter how severely his condition is limited. Many medical malpractice and accident victims may never be able to work again and may also face continued medical bills that, by this time, may have escalated into untold millions of dollars all the while the law is arbitrarily setting limits on medical malpractice and accident victim awards.
In addition to continuously working on setting tighter limits on the verdicts in personal injury and medical malpractice jury cases, insurance companies try to make sure that the legal processes involved in personal injury and medical malpractice cases are intrusive, lengthy, and as costly as possible for the victim. Insurance companies have no reservations about denying responsibility in even the most outrageous cases which may sometimes result in lifelong suffering, pain, and loss for the victim and their family. Insurance companies hope that by making the process difficult, you will decide to not pursue your claim. They also hope that you will not find an experienced, competent trial attorney to handle your claim.
Most personal injury lawyers will be the first to tell you that no personal injury or medical malpractice case is easy. They simply require a ton of work including witness interviews, photographic work, documentation review, and even accident reconstruction work. If a personal injury lawyer isn’t will to do these things you have practically no chance at being successful in your litigation. And the victim needs to understand practically as much about the law as the lawyer does.
