Representing yourself in a personal injury claim is risky: A potential personal injury client recently called me, Attorney Richard Griffin, and asked if the adjuster’s offer of $30,000 was fair. He was attempting to represent himself for a very serious motorcycle personal injury claim. His medical expenses were $20,000 for an ankle surgery he under went to repair a fractured ankle. As a motorcycle accident attorney, I informed the caller that his case was probably worth a lot more than $30,000 and explained that knowing the correct policy limits of the liability insurance policy, as well as, the policy limits of all of the under-insured motorist policies was crucial. The caller informed me that the adjuster had verbally told him that liability limits were $30,000.
After the proper request for policy limits was sent to the liability adjuster pursuant to O.C.G.A. Section 33-3-28(a) were sent, the liability adjuster produced a written policy limits declaration page that revealed the policy limits were actually $50,000. This makes a huge difference in this motorcycle personal injury claim.
How much money was this personal injury claimant about to loose if he settled his motorcycle accident claim for $30,000? Motorcycle accident lawyer Richard Griffin explained to his client that if he had settled for $30,000, he would have lost $20,000 of settlement dollars from the liability carrier. However, the client was even more surprised when he understood that in additional to loosing the $20,000, he would have also lost his claim to an under-insured motorist policy of an additional $50,000. The total loose if this personal injury claimant had settled his case for $30,000 would have be up to $70,000. Clearly, hiring an experienced personal injury claim makes all the difference in increasing the net recovery clients receive for their claims. Not having to pay an attorney fee is heavily outweighed by the huge loses personal injury claimants can easily make when trying to represent themselves.
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