3 Important Steps After an Accident
Generally, the first few hours and days following an accident are frequently the most crucial in protecting and enhancing your rights to ultimately get a fair settlement of your case. In this blog post, we will provide 3 important steps you can take immediately following a car accident in South Florida.
- Write down record and preserve everything. This is of crucial importance. Make it a habit to write down and otherwise make a record of everything you possibly can about the accident the location, its surroundings, the parties involved, the economic losses and physical damages incurred, the eyewitnesses, and your injuries. Make this record by any and every means available to you by written notes, photographs, videos, recordings etc. In most if not all car accident cases, the testimony and statements of eyewitnesses and the evidence recorded after the accident can be of critical importance as it can make or break a case. This is because detailed evidence serves to support your own statements and claims about the accident.
- Get Medical Attention. A common reality not often understood by the average person involved in an accident is the critical and indispensable necessity of seeing a doctor and getting medical attention immediately after an accident. By all accounts, a decision as to whether medical attention is obtained, from who it is obtained, and the timeliness of it, often spells the critical difference between getting a generous settlement or barely getting enough compensation to pay for your injury. Even if you don’t have any pain, it is still possible that you have some injury you’re not aware of. Your injuries will be worth much more in the adjuster’s eyes if they see you going to a doctor, even if the doctor cannot find anything seriously wrong with you. If you don’t visit a doctor but you still try to claim you have cuts or bruises or pains and that you lost time from work, you won’t get a very good settlement offer for your injury. Additionally, if you do see your doctor and have him write a report, the settlement value of your case improves tremendously.
- Organize All of Your Documentation. When you take the time to adequately and timely assemble documentation, it can be a great way to ensure that your personal injury case is a success. You should begin immediately after your accident by assembling all letters, notes, financial documents, medical records, tapes, photos, and paperwork related to your accident. Additionally, you should organize documents into proper categories, separate and arrange the documents, and record each category so that all items for each category are kept in separate folders filed and properly labeled in such a way that they can be easily identified.
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At Suarez & Montero, we help victims of automobile accidents. Our injury lawyers have the essential tools and knowledge to successfully file a personal injury claim on your behalf and come away with a fair and reasonable settlement. At Suarez & Montero, our group of accident lawyers have more than 19 years of experience helping injury victims that have sustained severe injuries in all kinds of crashes due to the negligence or carelessness of others. Our group of automobile accident attorneys have comprehensive experience representing clients in different kinds of personal injury issues, including auto crashes, vehicle crashes, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, slip and falls, trip and falls, medical negligence, and more. If you, a friend, or family member has been injured in any type of accident, do not hesitate to contact the car accident attorneys at Suarez & Montero to receive your free consultation. We serve clients throughout Florida including those in the following areas:
Miami-Dade: Aventura, Coral Gables, Doral, Fontainebleau, Hialeah, Homestead, Kendall, Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Lakes, North Miami, Tamiami, and Westchester.
Broward: Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, and Weston; and Palm Beach County including Boca Raton, Lake Worth, and West Palm Beach.
