After an injury, there are a few things you can do at the crash scene—if you are physically able to—that will help with ensuring a successful motorcycle accident claim. For more information, please contact our experienced Newhall motorcycle injury lawyers to maximize your compensation and get the dedicated legal representation you deserve.
Ensuring a Successful Motorcycle Accident Claim | Collect Evidence
If you are able to function after the crash, collecting evidence is going to be paramount to your case. Talk to your witnesses and gather their contact information. Get the police on the scene to get the incident recorded. In the meantime, it is important to take as many photos and videos as possible. You can do this on your phone if it has those features, which most phones do these days. This evidence will be beneficial to you and your attorney down the road when you have to go up against the insurance company of the driver who hit you.
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Ensuring a Successful Motorcycle Accident Claim | Seek Medical Care
Make sure that, if you’re not taken by an ambulance to seek medical care, at the very least you see your primary physician or visit an Urgent Care to get your injuries checked out. Do this for your own wellbeing, but also because you need to get these injuries officially recorded so we can use that information to show the insurance company that you need rightful compensation.
Ensuring a Successful Motorcycle Accident Claim | Don’t Speak to Insurance Companies
You also need to know how to handle the phone calls from the insurance companies when they come calling, which they will. They are trying to get a statement out of you to make you either seem at fault for the crash or make it seem like you aren’t as injured as you claim to be. The first call they make to you, you don’t have to pick up, but if you do, we suggest you tell them that you have obtained counsel and all communication can go through your lawyer from now on. Do not give them any information about your injuries or the wreck or the aftermath of it.
If you are suffering from serious injuries, please call our Newhall motorcycle injury lawyers at Bish & Cutting, APC for dedicated support. You are a priority to us, and we will help you get the compensation that you rightfully deserve. Don’t let the insurance company hassle you into a low settlement. Call today to make a full recovery.
