Take for example, John, one of my clients. John is a hard working father of two small children, who was driving home when a reckless driver rear-ended his car. His car was totaled, since the car that hit him was traveling at speeds more than 20 miles per hour. As you would guess, the person who hit his car didn’t have insurance.

They took John immediately via ambulance to the nearest trauma center. He was conscious but in severe neck and back pain. In the following months, he underwent several medical scans of his back, and required medications for pain and physical therapy, later changing to a chiropractor when his pain still did not disappear.

The next few days would have been critical for John. If he didn’t have the accident, he would have been called back to work like the rest of his co-workers. He usually worked 90% of the weeks of the year, but it just happened he was laid off a few days before the accident. He was misinformed that because he had been laid off, he would not qualify for any loss of earnings compensation. When his friends were called back to the job, his finances really started to take a turn for the worse. His severe headaches, neck and back pain kept him from doing his ordinary job in construction and he was losing big money collecting unemployment.

He did not know that he had "uninsured motorist" protection because his own car had "UM" or "uninsured motorist" coverage. He did not know that the fact he was laid of a few days before the accident would not prevent him from recovering his lost earnings after his co-workers got called back to the job. His own insurance company was moving to stop his medical and therapy care. He asked a good friend if she knew of any lawyers. His friend sent him to a lawyer who did a little bit of everything. He told him he couldn’t do much because he was laid off at the time of the accident and the other car didn’t have any insurance. Well to make a long story short, this attorney learned about the "uninsured motorist" coverage but was going to take little in settlement because he wouldn’t be able to add the lost earnings to the damage claim.

John was desperate when he came to our office. We did some checking up. We put in a claim for uninsured motorist coverage right away and filed for arbitration when his insurance carrier did not agree to it right away. We found out his friends got called back to work a few days after John’s accident, so we put in a claim with documentation for loss of earnings. We have been successful at recovering a "just" settlement.

YOU CAN’T BELIEVE HOW INSURANCE COMPANIES

TRY TO RIP PEOPLE OFF…

WARNING:

DON’T LET ANY INSURANCE COMPANY TRY TO PRESSURE YOU

INTO DOING ANYTHING UNTIL YOU SPEAK WITH A LAWYER WHO

HAS REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE.

Now, I did not work any special miracle on this case. I just did my job as a lawyer practicing personal injury law. No divorces, no wills, no immigration, no DUI defense, just accidents. I did the hard work that I was supposed to do that was necessary to help my clients.

The tragedy in all of this is that there are many people out there just like John. Every year, hundreds, if not thousands of people are injured in automobile accidents. In some way or another they’re injured all over again by uncaring insurance companies they’re up against. Or by unskilled inexperienced lawyers they hired to represent them.

PAST RESULTS ACHIEVED ARE NOT A GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS. EACH CASE IS UNIQUE AND

REFERENCE MUST BE MADE TO THE SPECIFIC LEGAL AND FACTUAL CIRCUMSTANCES PRESENTED.

The harsh reality is that the BIG, STRONG AND POWERFUL insurance companies often try to force the injured party into accepting a lower settlement for their injuries than they truly deserve. The truth of the matter is that insurance companies are in business to make money and the less they pay you, the more profit they can put into their deep pockets.

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