Can you file a claim against your own insurance? When the person causes an accident and either doesn’t have sufficient insurance or has none at all, you may have to make a claim against your own insurance. I know what …
Bad Injuries Don’t Always Make Good Cases
After handling catastrophic injuries for more than two decades, we have seen our share of terrible trauma. But, it is easy to miss that the severity of trauma does not automatically make the other guy more at fault. In all …
When They Have No Insurance
Despite recent laws in Tennessee, uninsured driving is still actually very common. It is my experience that uninsured drivers tend to cause more accidents. Their cars tend to be in worse shape, and they tend to drive in more dangerous …
The Three Ingredients of an Injury Case
While all injuries are regrettable, not all are compensable. There are at least three ingredients that must be present for a winning case: A strong injury case must have all three. Imagine you do my job, and here are a …
PEDESTRIAN DEATHS ON THE RISE
A pedestrian is injured every 8 minutes, and killed every 2 hours in traffic crashes. 14% of all traffic fatalities in traffic crashes were those on foot. They account for less total crashes, but as expected, crashes prove much more …
Calls After Your Crash
If you have been the victim of a car accident in our area, it is almost certain that you received phone calls about it. Many times, calls have happened within 24 hours. These folks have been getting information from the …
Uninsured Hypocrisy
Not a week goes by that my office phone does not ring with someone who’s been injured by an uninsured motorist. Now I handle those cases on a regular basis. They are called “uninsured motorist claims” and they are covered …
Uninsured Motorists FAQs
Because you have more money available to you in the event of a tragic accident. Example: Woman Driving drunk plows into you from behind. You have a broken shoulder blade and a punctured lung. But what if you have $100,000.00 …