If the thoughtless actions of someone else have harmed you, you can file a personal injury claim. Still, you cannot feel assured of winning a generous compensation unless you undertake some more thoughtful actions. You need to adapt the following behaviors.
Save all documents.
Find a place where you can collect all your bills and receipts. You need to have evidence of what it has cost you to have your injury diagnosed and treated. Do not overlook any payment you have made for pain medicine or a piece of medical equipment, even one as small as a bandage.
In addition to collecting the documents that other people hand to you, start your own journal. Keep your own record of the times when you were stressed or shocked, starting with the day of the injury-causing accident.
Be on time for all treatments.
If you delay a treatment or fail to show up for a treatment, that fact could work against you. The insurance company could claim that your pain and discomfort was due to your unwillingness to get treated properly. Your personal injury lawyer in Edmonton would find it hard to respond to that argument. It may seem like wasted effort, when you go to all your treatments. Still, your time and effort could show the insurance company that your injury has truly harmed your body. That would certainly be the case, if you got asked to attend an insurer’s medical exam (IME).
Do not speak with any insurance experts until you have filed an injury case.
You must keep the insurance company from recording your remarks, before you have submitted the file for your case. Your file presents your case; it explains how you got injured and how you suffered, as a result of that injury. You must make sure that the insurance company does not record any remark that could cast doubt on the veracity of the material in your file.
Find a good lawyer.
Click onto the Internet and visit the websites for various lawyers in your area. Make sure that you look for those that specialize in helping clients with a personal injury claim. Search for any testimony that has been posted by previous clients. Check to see if the same attorney has a private practice or is part of a firm. An attorney that enjoys the backing of a firm usually has more resources, which can be used for paying expert witnesses.
Try to schedule a free consultation with any lawyer that seems to have an adequate level of education, training and experience. You can learn more about the lawyer’s qualifications at a scheduled consultation. Take advantage of the fact that you are free to attend multiple consultations. Try to determine whether or not a consulted lawyer’s experience and training could be used as a foundation on which to gain the knowledge that an attorney would need, after agreeing to take you as a client.