When should I get an attorney for a car accident?- Personal Injury Lawyer answers your questions.
When should I get an attorney for a car
We’re with John Kelly John is a personal an injury attorney
in Phoenix Arizona, he’s agreed to answer an online question that was posted so
John
Let’s get into the question this question was posted from
Samantha, it's related to when you should hire an attorney
for a car accident so her question was to Mr. Kelly I'd like to know when you
recommend hiring
An attorney after a car accident and what situations do you
need an attorney and
In what situations you can avoid hiring an attorney and just
work with the
Insurance company directly okay. Thank You Samantha for the
question it's a good question and Samantha's actually ahead of the game a
little bit in understanding that there are cases and she's smart to ask that it
may make sense to represent yourself there are a
a lot of factors though that you want to look at it before
you make that decision and so I've kind of laid out some of these factors I
think people who are considering representing themselves should look at and if
they apply to them they may want to move forward in a network way so one of the
things that I first would look at what type of case they have so if we're
talking about an auto accident pedestrian accident something simple it is very
easy to
Explain does it have a lot of parties involved that's a
candidate for a case that you may be able to represent resolving cases that are
difficult to represent yourself in medical malpractice you do not want to
proceed
Forward typically by yourself in a medical malpractice cases
a lot of times experts are needed there's a lot of complicating statutes that
get involved in that kind of thing any kind of case
that's saying a wrongful death is very serious injuries and
we'll talk about that you know things that probably a little bit common sense
but if it's a simple auto an accident maybe we're an
The accident that's a type of case that you may be able to
represent yourself then then we got to go to the next factor which is how
severe the injuries and so if we have a case that has what we call
Soft tissue injuries as opposed to broken bones head trauma
spinal cord injuries severe burns you know anything that required
hospitalization and surgery that kind of case you would
Not want to probably represent yourself but if you're
talking you know whiplash little back pain something that doesn't require a lot
of medical expenses that are
another type of case that you may be able to represent
yourself and get a good result with you always have to keep in mind these
insurance companies they
Want to minimize the amount that they the payout for your
claim there's a lot of good justice out there and some of them are honest but
there are a lot of adjusters that want to minimize the amount that they're
paying out so that they can save their boss money their boss's boss money
building you
Know these are big corporations that they have a bottom line
and so that’s what they're looking out for you're
looking out for your interests and sometimes cutting out the
attorneys pieces are something that you want to
consider the final thing or one of the other ones I guess
there are two other things it's what are the medical
expenses and we kind of talked about that with the severity
of the injuries
if you have a hospital visit that visits alone typically is
well over a thousand dollars and sometimes is up to 20,000/30,000 hundred
thousand dollars in beyond obviously if you have a hospital visit its thousands
of dollars that
lien alone may warrant having an attorney get involved to
see if we can reduce those bills there's health
insurance that gets involved the hospital has a right to try
to come back to you and say after your settlement yeah we got it we received
some
compensation from your health insurance but we know you have
an injury settlement and we want more of that money that's something that
you're going to want to look at it's her knee to look at because that's a lien
issue and that can get very complicated for every state there are different laws
and your attorney
could save you hundreds of thousands of dollars literally in
a big case or you know something more practical a couple
thousand dollars more in your pocket after you know you have
paid off your attorney and the liens were taking care of property
you also can then feel rest assured that your attorney
looked at every possible provider and make sure that
there's no outstanding lien so that after you settle your
case one of these doctors aren't going to come forward to
you and say look I still need to be paid and here you
thought that they were taken care of so that's another issue
that comes up finally your health of the state the same
standard as an attorney when you're dealing with this insurance
companies and their lawyers so if you're representing
yourself you're
representing yourself as your lawyer if you make a mistake
that cost you your
case completely or cost you to lose a a lot of money you
can't go back and say hey you know but now I want an attorney
to look at this to review it there's very few instances that
you're going to be able to do that so it's kind of high stakes and so you want
to make sure
you're doing it correctly the final thing I would tell
Samantha
look lawyers almost every one of us will sit down and at
least talk to you about your case gives you the factors you need
to consider there are cases that I talk to clients give them
all the information they need and up representing themselves
some of them come back to me and they you know had problems
representing
themselves I'm happy to look at it and it could pick up
where they were but
it's a free consultation it's something that you should take
advantage of and it
may save you a lot of money in the long run so with that I
think that what Samantha should be looking at those
are the factors if anyone watching this wants to contact me
for a consultation In their case my firm is the Kelly Law team in the number of
six oh two two
eight three four one two three
John Kelly is a Phoenix personal injury and car accident lawyer. In this YouTube channel, John Kelly provides online responses to user questions.
John Kelly is a top rated lawyer on AVVO, Yelp and Google with numerous peer and client recommendations. In Addition to car accidents John has successfully represented clients seeking compensation for all of the following cases:
Truck Accidents
Wrongful Death
Motorcycle Accidents
Slip & Fall
Dog Bite
Assault
Medical Malpractice
Product Liability
Workplace Injuries
Premises Liability
Bicycle Accidents
Burn Injuries
Pedestrian Accidents
Brain Injury
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