Do you need help recovering from a recent spinal cord injury? Our Seattle lawyers can help you file an insurance claim with a relevant provider. If you can’t get the support you need with an insurance claim, we can take your fight for compensation to civil court.
Premier Law Group and our Seattle personal injury lawyers have helped injured people recover over $100 million dollars since 2001. We want to do the same for you. You can book a free case consultation with our team today to learn more about what right you have to legal action following a spinal cord injury.
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How Can You Financially Recover from a Spinal Cord Injury?
Spinal cord injuries do more than physically upend your life. Most of these injuries require you to pursue specialist care and, more often than not, surgeries. If you don’t have the financial bandwidth to afford treatment, you may find yourself in serious medical debt.
How can you stay on top of your essential medical care while keeping yourself out of debt? Our Seattle spinal cord injury attorneys recommend two courses of action. You can hold an insurance provider responsible for your recovery, or you can pursue a personal injury claim against a liable party.
Working With a Seattle Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer to File an Insurance Claim
Most people have some kind of insurance designed to protect them from the financial fallout of a serious accident. If you get into a car accident, truck accident, or accident on someone else’s property, you should have the right to reach out to a liable party’s provider. However, you need to do so quickly and with enough evidence to prove to the provider that you deserve financial support.
Unfortunately, insurance claims adjusters do not want to help you financially recover from a spinal cord injury. Most will use bad-faith tactics to deny you the support you deserve, often misrepresenting evidence or deliberately slowing down the claim-filing process.
How can you get ahead of these bad-faith tactics? You can ask an attorney to help you file your initial claim. An attorney can then oversee your conversations with insurance claims adjusters, minimizing their opportunities to use your words and evidence against you.
Working With a Seattle Spinal Cord Injury Attorney to File a Personal Injury Claim
If you’re struggling to make your voice heard in conversations with an insurance claims adjuster, you can ask an attorney for help taking your fight for accident compensation to civil court. Filing a personal injury claim requires you to undergo many of the same processes you have to when compiling an insurance claim.
For example, you’ll need:
- Enough evidence to meet Washington’s burden of proof
- Evidence that a liable party caused you to endure economic and non-economic losses
All this information needs to make it to a Washington civil court before your case’s statute of limitations (Wash. Rev. Code § 4.16.080(2)) expires, or else you may lose the chance to demand damages based on your losses.
You may also have the right to pursue a claim against a liable party if someone you love dies as a result of a spinal cord injury. However, only a personal executor can file a wrongful death claim on behalf of someone who died due to a spinal cord injury.
You can discuss your right to file an applicable claim during a wrongful death case consultation.
Base Your Recovery on Comprehensive Evidence
When arguing for damages based on your spinal cord injury losses, you need to prove that your losses stemmed from someone else’s negligence. To do so, you can bring forward evidence that elaborates on the narrative of negligence behind your accident.
This evidence may include:
- Photos and videos of your accident
- Statements from bystanders
- Input from police officers and emergency responders
- Medical documents, X-rays, paperwork, and treatment plans
- Bills affiliated with your post-accident care
- Additional expert witness statements
- Environmental damage and/or physical debris
- Electronic evidence, as applicable
- A black box from a truck or heavy construction equipment, if applicable
Choose Whether or Not You Take Your Case to Trial
You are under no obligation to argue for your right to spinal cord injury damages in front of a judge and jury. Most personal injury claims addressing serious spinal cord injuries come to their final resolution in private settlement negotiations. You and your attorney can attend these negotiations, outline your losses, and make your case directly to a liable party.
However, filing a personal injury claim allows you to preserve your right to go to trial should the need to do so arise. If you can’t get a liable party to cooperate with you, your spinal cord injury lawyer in Seattle, WA, can prepare you for:
- Discovery
- Opening statements
- Examination
- Cross-examination
- Closing statements
- Deliberation and verdict
If the need arises, we can also help you appeal the court’s decision.
For a FREE legal consultation with a spinal cord injury lawyer serving Seattle, call (206) 285-1743
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Your Spinal Cord Injury Consultation Comes Free of Charge
You don’t have to pay a dime to ask our spinal cord injury attorneys in Seattle, WA, for legal advice. We want you to have the chance to candidly discuss your accident.
Once you’ve finished your consultation, it’s entirely up to you to decide whether or not you want to move forward with a case–and, if you do, what that case should look like.
Premier Law Group and its attorneys are here to put power back into your hands after a life-changing accident. Don’t let your spinal cord injury case’s statute of limitations expire. You can book your free case consultation today.
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