Personal Injury Claims Macon

An adjuster will request a recorded statement shortly after an accident to get you to commit to a version of the story and document your injuries. This is dangerous for two reasons. First, they will try to manipulate you into describing the accident in a way that puts liability in question, or diminishes the damages. This will be used against you if facts change after the statement was taken, even if it is years afterwards. Second, at the time when you give the statement, it is possible that all of your injuries haven’t shown up yet. For example, in most cases where surgery is required, it usually isn’t performed until months after the accident. If you settle right away, then you’ve given up the right to have the surgery included in the settlement. The Quickie Low Ball Settlement is the oldest trick in the book. The insurance adjuster will be very friendly and offer you an amount to just wrap this whole thing up right away. The quickie offer can vary from a few hundred dollars to a couple thousand. The bottom line is that the insurance companies know that if they get you quickly before you speak to an attorney, they can get away with paying a whole lot less.

An adjuster will request you to allow the company access to your medical and/or employment records before and after the accident, and then send the records to a specialist (who makes a lot of money working for that insurance company) to review and give an opinion whether you were injured and whether the treatment was reasonable. As can be expected, the specialist will often find there were no injuries or limit the injuries caused by the accident.

If your case goes on long enough, the insurance company may ask you to go see a doctor of their choosing. They tell you that it is so that they can make sure all of the care you’re getting is what you actually need. In reality, it is a hatchet job from the beginning. Remember the doctor who makes a lot of money doing records reviews for the insurance company? This guy makes even more money doing exams, then writing reports saying that you aren’t hurt.

The overarching tactic the insurance companies use is called “The Three Ds”: deny, delay, defend. They will deny that the accident is their insured’s fault, or that you were injured. They will delay giving you any money for as long as possible (assuming you don’t take the “quickie settlement”). Lastly, they will defend any claim you make aggressively, even forcing you to go to trial.

Contact us if you have been injured in Macon GA (Georgia), or in Roberta, Warner Robins, Forsyth, Byron-Centerville, Culloden, Fort Valley, Haddock, Jeffersonville, Lizella, Perry, Gray, Irwinton, Milledgeville and Vienna including Bibb County, Monroe County, Jones County, Crawford County, Peach County, Twiggs County, Baldwin County, Dooly County Houston County, Wesleyan College, Macon State College and Mercer University. Our wrongful death and personal injury attorneys are based in Macon GA (Georgia) and can get you the compensation you deserve.

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