If your car accident involves only car damage, you probably won’t need a lawyer’s help. But if another driver’s mistake leaves you with a serious injury, the higher medical bills and extended time missed at work will mean car insurers work harder to avoid taking the blame. You may need a lawyer to protect you from shady insurance tactics. A lawyer keeps insurers from throwing your case out for no reason and can also often win you much more in support than you could earn yourself.
With some cases, it’s hard to tell if you require a lawyer’s assistance to get fair compensation. But there’s a no-risk way to find out. Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers of Bakersfield offers a free consultation with a real attorney. There’s no obligation. But if we can help you earn more, we’ll tell you that and can go to work immediately on your case.
If we can’t help you earn more, we can send you in the right direction to file a successful claim yourself.
Why Would I Need a Lawyer’s Help After a Bakersfield Car Accident?
With car damage, the insurance claims process has become pretty standard. If you work with the insurers’ preferred mechanic and auto body shops, you’ll usually get your car fixed. They might even refund you for a precautionary trip to the emergency room.
But when there’s a serious injury involved, insurance companies get much tighter. This might involve a bone fracture, a brain injury, or a neck or back injury. A longer recovery time means the hospital bills will keep growing.
It suddenly becomes you against a giant insurance company.
To escape responsibility, auto insurance providers will try to shift blame to you, no matter what really happened. They can also question the severity of your injuries as an excuse to provide you with less in support.
Your lawyer represents a safeguard against these tactics. Your lawyer is also a safe bet to earn you more in settlement negotiations than you could yourself.
These are just a few of the other benefits your lawyer provides.
- Backs your case with strong evidence after a full investigation into the accident and the driver at fault.
- Protects your innocence if an insurance adjuster wants to say that you caused the collision.
- Makes sure the full extent of your injuries can’t be covered up, or devalued in a settlement.
- Files your car accident claim for you and allows as little disruption to your recovery journey as possible.
- Calls insurers out if they purposely delay a response to your claim, in the hopes of making you desperate.
- Negotiates on your behalf to get the maximum in compensation.
- Knows when insurers have sent you a lowball offer that doesn’t cover everything you’ve been through. Rejects it and demands more.
- Helps you reach a settlement offer that restores your finances and provides for any further medical care you require.
- Prepares a lawsuit and is ready to take the insurer to court if they refuse to accept full blame for their policyholder’s mistake on a Bakerfield road.
First, your car accident claim may be about who was to blame. Then the focus should be on getting compensated for everything you’ve been through. Both stages are critical so that you never have to face the consequences of an accident that is someone else’s fault yourself.
Your Bakersfield car accident lawyer can help you with both steps to make sure you emerge from a frightening accident with your life restored to normal.
Talk to a Bakersfield Car Accident Lawyer for Free
It’s a good idea to speak with a real Bakersfield car accident lawyer after any serious accident that you didn’t cause. We offer a free, no-obligation case consultation. Have this meeting before talking to any car insurance representative for the at-fault driver.
Insurers will tell you that you don’t need a lawyer, no matter the circumstances. They’ll also try to convince you that your injuries aren’t worth very much money. Meanwhile, you are plunged into financial turmoil because of a driver’s error in judgment.
And if you do need a lawyer to represent you, you don’t have to worry about how you’ll pay Maison Law Accident & Injury Lawyers. We don’t charge anything unless we win your case for you. Then our fee comes out of the settlement check that an insurer must write for you.