How do you settle a bodily injury or personal injury case and what is a personal injury claim anyway?

How do you settle a bodily injury or personal injury case and, by the way, what is a personal injury claim anyway?

The settlement of a personal injury or bodily injury claim is dependent upon the particular facts of your case and the injuries incurred as the result of someone else’s negligent act. One of the most common kinds of bodily injury cases is automobile injuries, but there are a whole host of other causes of injuries, for example, drunk driving, hit-and-run, medical negligence, defects on the roadway.

Generally, bodily injury claims are caused by just general negligence, carelessness or disregard for you or others. This bodily injury to you, no matter how great or small, causes you a loss in some fashion, generally measured in terms of money damages.

It is that loss that allows you to attempt to settle a personal injury or bodily injury claim. The settlements are usually done either through the insurance companies or the courts, and the insurance companies want to settle your claim fast and settle it low.

You did not ask for a bodily injury, it was forced upon you by the acts of another by their bad driving, bad behavior, lack of knowledge or skill that the other person should have had, but for some reason did not at the time of the accident. They may have looked, but did not see. Our firm can help you obtain the best possible settlement and advise you on what is reasonable and unreasonable. Be careful, bankruptcy can impact on the settlement of your personal injury claim.
When you settle a personal or bodily injury claim, there are also tax consequences that you need to consider. Depending upon your medical insurance, you may owe your doctor or hospital money and that can be taken out of the settlement of your injury claim. This issue has to do with liens that can be placed upon your settlement.

There is no minimum settlement of a personal injury or bodily injury claim. Like so much in life, it is like a sliding scale. The more provable pain, suffering, humiliation and distress, the further up the sliding scale you go.

Other things we add to your sliding scale, the need to settle your personal injury or bodily injury claim, is the amount of your medical bills, what are your lost wages now and into the future, can you return to your job, do you have any broken bones or torn ligaments.

Should I have an attorney to represent me in the settlement of my personal injury or bodily injury claim? The short answer is yes. The negligent person or organization has an insurance company standing behind him and that insurance company has a host of lawyers ready to lull you into a false sense of security and cause you to settle your claim for far less than what it is really worth, and to have you settle the claim before you really know the extent of your injuries.

You need someone on your side who knows the law. Whether your case is great or small, the settlement of your personal injury or bodily injury claim is important enough for you to seek out a lawyer that is on your side. Someone who is a local attorney who knows the local Courts due to frequent representation of injured people in front of their local judges.

Call Kinnaird Cloyes & Kinnaird, P.C. to represent you.