The Motorcycle Accident Lawyers SITEMAP
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The Motorcycle Accident Lawyers SITEMAP
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The Motorcycle Accident Checklist WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT LAWYER RECOMENDS THAT YOU DO IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT WITH ANOTHER VEHICLE Your response IMMEDIATELY after an accident may prove crucial in preserving the evidence essential to your lawsuit. Therefore, the Motorcycle Accident Lawyer recommends that wherever possible, assuming that you have not been rendered unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, get the following information. If you are conscious, but cannot do it yourself, then ask someone present to gather the information for you. Get the make, model and year of the other vehicles and check the vehicle registration. Take down the vehicle owner's name and address, if it is a person or corporation or entity different from the driver. If it is a company vehicle, write down the name and address of the company. If it is a leased or rented vehicle, write down the name, address and telephone number of the rental company. Give the other driver your Name, Address, Drivers License Number and Insurance Information. The Motorcycle Accident Attorneys recommend that you also look around Immediately and identify any and all possible witnesses to the Accident. Ask for their names, addresses, telephone numbers (both home and work), and where they work. If they do not want to get involved, then take down their car license plate numbers and States. Listen carefully to what the other driver says about the events leading up to the accident, e.g., "I didn't see you.," and write it down. The Motorcycle Accident Attorney recommends that you also note who else may have heard or overheard the "admission." ["Admissions" can generally be introduced in evidence against a party to litigation under the "admissions" exception to the hearsay rule] Call the Police, or have someone else call the Police immediately. The police officer will generally interview all drivers and take witness statements from all witnesses still present. Tell the Police the facts, but "JUST THE FACTS." The police may also collect vital physical evidence and make important skid or debris measurements useful in "reconstructing" the point of impact and vehicle speeds upon which the auto driver's liability will often turn. The Motorcycle Accident Lawyers also recommend that you ask the police officer to find out where the other driver was going. If the driver was on an errand for his or her employer, "in the course and scope of his or her employment," you may find you have another good "potential defendant," possibly with much higher policy limits than the driver. WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT ATTORNEYS RECOMEND YOU NOT DO IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT DO NOT sign any writings by the other driver purporting to summarize the facts of the accident. DO NOT get into an argument with the other driver about what happened. DO NOT punch out the driver of the other vehicle. (Their countersuit against you for "battery" might wash out your suit against them.) DO NOT have your bike repaired. Not until you have an attorney who can have the bike inspected, photographed, and provide the Insurer or Defense Attorney notice and an opportunity to inspect the bike. WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT ATTORNEY RECOMMENDS YOU DO IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT, OR, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE The Motorcycle Acciden Attorney recommends that you follow through on ALL medical care, treatment, and therapy recommended by you physicians. This is important first to assure your quickest and most complete recovery from your injuries, and it is also important for your motorcycle accident case, so that you don't provide the defendant's attorney the argument that your disability might have been avoided but for your failure to follow your physicians instructions. Find an appropriate motorcycle accident attorney to represent you right from the start. Click on the "WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT ATTORNEY " button, below. Even the first 24 to 48 hours can be crucial in terms of initiating an appropriate investigation of the accident scene, involved vehicles, and to obtain witness statements. You may contact attorney Henke by submitting the Motorcycle Accident Questionnaire or toll free by telephone from anywhere in the United States. Attorney. Henke does not charge motorcyclists for the initial motorcycle accident attorney consultation. Click the "Contact Me" button below. WHAT THE MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT LAWYERS RECOMMEND YOU DO IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT, PRIOR TO RETAINING AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU DO NOT permit ANYONE to interrogate you about the events of the accident, particularly the other party's attorney, representatives of the other party's insurance company, or even representatives of your own insurance company. If your insurance policy requires that you report your accident within a time certain, this is another reason to obtain a motorcycle accident lawyer immediately and have your lawyer report the accident. In the alternative, you may contact your insurer, advise its representative that you were involved in a motorcycle accident on such and such a date, provide the representative the name of driver of the other vehicle, his address, telephone number and insurance information, and then tell the representative that you expect to retain a motorcycle accident lawyer immediately and that all other questions will be answered by your lawyers. Once you have an lawyer, if you are contacted by an insurance representative, or anyone else for that matter, refer the caller to your lawyer. While you are still in the process of searching for an attorney, take down the callers' numbers and tell them that as soon as you have retained counsel you will have your lawyers contact them. The Motorcycle Accident Lawyers recommend that you DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING prepared by yours or the other side's insurance company, or anyone else, until it is first reviewed by your lawyers. DO NOT SIGN any writings purporting to summarize the events of the accident. Insurance companies may send you other documents, e.g., "General Releases For Medical Records" that an astute attorney would never permit you to sign. It is only the relevant medical records that the insurer should be permitted to obtain, and that should be strictly limited and controlled by your motorcycle accident lawyers, permitting only the physician-specific or hospital admission-specific medical record authorizations. The major dangers associated with communications with other parties, their attorneys, their insurance representatives and your insurance representatives can all be avoided by immediately obtaining appropriately qualified counsel to represent you. |
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