We help Bakersfield car accident victims and take special care with victims who are left with internal bleeding from their injuries. Our Bakersfield Car Accident Lawyers get aggressive to make sure insurance companies for at-fault drivers cover every medical bill victims receive while in recovery.
To find out more about your claim, contact Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers of Bakersfield to schedule an absolutely free case consultation. It’s a way to determine what your injuries are worth and how to hold insurers fully accountable.
How to Tell If You Need a Car Accident Lawyer
Car accident victims with serious injuries usually come away with more money for their recoveries when working with an experienced car accident attorney. Any injury that led to internal bleeding would certainly qualify as serious.
The trick is that an injury that requires longer and more expensive care starts to worry car insurance providers. They flip out over the costs and immediately search for ways to devalue your case. To totally reject your claim, they can try to pin the blame for the traffic accident on you. They can also downplay your injuries to try to discount your settlement check (tough to do when you’ve suffered internal bleeding).
A skilled attorney fully investigates your case and collects the evidence needed to prove fault. Medical evidence will also demonstrate how much victims with serious injuries will need to pay their bills and restore their lives to normal.
These are a few of the types of injuries that may leave you in need of a lawyer:
- You suffer a bone fracture that results in internal bleeding.
- You suffer tissue damage, including muscle and organ damage, that leads to bleeding.
- You suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or a skull fracture leading to a hematoma, which is clotted blood in tissue. UCLA Health reports that between 30% and 40% of patients with serious head injuries will develop intracranial hematoma.
- Your child or some other family member suffers.
You can always file a claim yourself, but with a serious injury, a skilled attorney can often earn you much more than you could by taking on a giant insurer alone.
A Free Consultation with a Real Bakersfield Car Accident Attorney
Without a law degree, it can be difficult to figure out if you have a valid injury case or not. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to be sure. Reach out to us and schedule a free case consultation.
We’ll go over your accident with you. Talk about what you could demand from a car insurance company. Then we’ll inform you of the ways insurers will try to limit what you receive.
If you really don’t need our help with your case, we’ll tell you that. We’ll make sure you know how to handle your own case successfully. But if we can help you earn more, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll pay for a legal representative. We work on a contingency basis. It means you only pay us if we win your case. Then, our fee comes out of the settlement that a car insurance company must turn over to you.
What You Can Be Compensated for After an Accident
An important duty for your attorney will be to create a list of every hardship you’ve been through after a crash, an ambulance ride, surgeries, and a difficult recovery.
An attorney makes sure nothing is left off this list and that a car insurance company can’t ignore any damage listed.
Your attorney would make sure these and other hardships were factored into the size of any injury settlement check:
- 100% of Medical Costs, current and future
- Fees for surgery needed to stop the bleeding
- Physical therapy costs
- Medical equipment
- Home care expense
- Lifelong support for victims with permanent physical disabilities
- Reimbursement for all paychecks victims lose while they can’t work
- Help with supporting the victim and the victim’s family
- Lifelong support if victims left with disabilities can’t go back to work
- Help with finding a new career if victims can return to their current jobs
- Compensation for body shop costs
- Money for repairs
- Money to replace a totaled car
- Compensation for the pain victims endure
- Support for chronic pain
- Support for pain medication and therapies
- Support for any arthritis that develops
- Compensation for emotional damages
- Support for anxiety and PTSD symptoms sparked by the collision
- Support for Depression during a difficult recovery
- Support for a loss of enjoyment of life due to injury
- Support for the loss of consortium (intimacy with a partner)
To have bleeding you can’t even see will leave you feeling physically vulnerable and, understandably, a bit shaken. It’s not a time for you to be stressing about how your bills will be paid, but insurance companies don’t take that into consideration.
Allow Maison Law Accident & Injury Attorneys to investigate your case and represent you. This allows you to focus on getting better and rebuilding your life to the place it was before a devastating accident.
What to Do After a Car Accident in Bakersfield
A car accident might leave you in the middle of the lanes on Highway 99 or stopped along Chester Avenue. If you feel up to it, once the scene is secure, you can actually find powerful evidence of the scene. This evidence comes in very handy when insurance adjusters try to make false claims about what happened later.
But be cautious as you gather proof, you may not feel injured, but with internal bleeding, you may not see any visible effects or feel any different for a bit. Shock can also mask the pain of an internal injury. If you try to get out of your car and feel faint or unsteady, it’s best to stay put. Contact 911 and get an ambulance on the way.
You can also ask someone with you to collect a few details on the scene for you if you must go to the emergency room.
If you can, try to take photos of the damage to vehicles and any debris or skid marks left on the pavement. Get contact information from witnesses. Also, secure the driver’s license information and insurance information from the other driver, unless a Bakersfield police officer provides this information to you. Give the investigating officer the full scoop on what you observed just before the crash.
You should also contact your own car insurance provider shortly after you leave the scene. Alert them even if you feel you weren’t at fault.
Contact a Bakersfield Car Accident Lawyer
If you suffered a serious injury, and internal bleeding, and another driver’s mistake caused your accident, it’s a good idea to take advantage of a free case review. Contact us to discuss your options. Let’s figure out the best way to earn quick and substantial support for your recovery.
It’s important to act swiftly. California actually allows victims up to two years to file an accident claim, but waiting can hurt your case. Valuable evidence can be cleaned up or hauled away. Cars can be demolished. Witnesses can become hard to reach.
Contact a skilled attorney as soon as possible to allow them the chance to collect fresh evidence. Also, the sooner you start building your case, the sooner you can hope to secure the support you need.
Remember, you don’t need any upfront money to hire us. If you need us, we don’t get paid unless we win your case. Then our attorney’s fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurance company must send you.