If you have suffered a personal injury then you know it can have a big impact on your life. In addition to your actual physical injury, being injured can also affect your career and personal relationships, and have impacts on your long-term health. While you may be in a hurry to try and recover as fast as you can and resolve claims quickly with a settlement offer, hiring a personal injury lawyer and working with Wapner Newman Law Firm can help you recover faster and be better off.
Can Advise You on What’s Best
You have to decide if you should settle or file a suit. The decision can affect how much you are going to get and how long until you get your money. Personal injury lawyers have the experience needed to help you make this decision.
Lawyers Can Save You Time
Time is precious, especially if you are injured. Do you want to spend your own time requesting medical bills, records, medical charts, and insurance reports? The answer to this is likely not and a personal injury lawyer can help take care of all of this for you so you are able to spend your time getting healthy and focusing on your recovery.
Lawyers Help Speed up the Case
When you hire a personal injury lawyer, it can help you make sure that your case actually progresses. Sometimes an insurer will delay the resolution of a case and use it as a tactic to drive down the amount you are willing to accept in a settlement. Additionally, claims can just fall through the cracks of piles of paperwork. Your lawyer is your advocate to keep pressure on the insurer in order to investigate and keep your case moving forward through litigation so it gets resolved.
Increase Your Recovery
If you have suffered due to someone else’s negligence then you likely already know that you can recover your compensation for lost wages, as well as related medical expenses. However, an experienced attorney can help you recover even more damages you are entitled to, including things you may not have realized you were entitled to, such as loss of future earnings. An experienced attorney evaluates your case and then provides recommendation on how to handle and value your claim. Most of the time, a lawyer is going to help you recover more than what any insurance company is going to offer you right off the bat.
Helps You with Access to Resources
An attorney has access to resources, such as experts and investigator, who can evaluate and help strengthen your claim. This allows you to increase your recovery, as well as speed it up.
Holds Off Creditors
If the accident prevents you from working then it’s common to have creditors calling you, especially for a mountain of medical bills. When you aren’t able to pay, bills are turned over to agencies and these can also increase because of late fees and fines. It can also affect your credit. Lawyers can be skilled at negotiating a lien with a medical provider so this doesn’t happen. A lien assures the provider that there is a claim for the injuries and gives them the right to be paid a negotiated amount when you case is resolved and you get the proceeds. This way, you don’t have to worry about unpaid bills while still getting the care you need.
Lawyers Can Deal with Big Entities
It can almost be impossible for you if you are unrepresented to effectively handle a corporation. Individuals simply don’t have the time and experience to handle a case on their own. For certain cases where the injury comes from a large corporation, you need to have a lawyer if you are going to be able to recover your damages.
Can Represent You in Court
If your case needs to go to court then it can be overwhelming for you to handle your case on your own if you don’t have the experience. You may struggle with the court procedures and rules. If you don’t comply with these rules, which you may not even know exist, then it can lead to your case getting dismissed and you won’t recover any money at all. When you work with a personal injury attorney then the courtroom work is taken care of so you can focus on healing.