I Keep Your Rights In My Sights
When Your Vehicle is Damaged or Totaled
When I say, "I keep your rights in my sights," I mean all your rights. This includes your right to have your vehicle properly repaired or totaled when necessary after a collision. You may think you can't afford a lawyer to handle a vehicle repair problem. Here's the good news— I do that for free. That's right - when I represent a client for personal injuries in a car wreck, I handle your property damage claim, too, and that part I do with no charge to you.
If you have a wrecked car, truck or motorcycle to deal with, you may encounter all kinds of difficulties and delays getting it replaced or the vehicle damage properly repaired. If you just discovered that the hands aren't so good after all, or that an insurance company is not on your side, I can help. Injury claims are even more complex and call for experienced legal representation to get the best results.
Countering Insurance Company Strategies with the Law on Your Side
In both vehicle damage and personal injury matters, insurance companies often prey on your life pressures and lack of legal knowledge. Let's face it—after a car wreck, your immediate need is to get your car repaired immediately and properly. You may need a rental car while this is going on. Your car may be so badly damaged that it is a total loss, in which case you need that loss paid so you can get another vehicle. Unfortunately, when you try to deal with these issues on your own, the insurance company you are dealing with is usually not as helpful as you hoped or need. That's because they are playing from a different playbook. Here are some of the most popular pages from their book.
Insurance Company Playbook
- Delay tactics, including ignoring your phone calls, switching claims representatives, telling you that your wreck is "still under investigation," and more
- The run-around - making you shop for estimates, get statements, supply the police report, sign releases - all of which seem to get lost so you have to do it all again
- Requiring recorded statements—without a lawyer present—and signing their forms with fine print that is impossible to understand
- Refusal to "total out" your vehicle, regardless of the extent of damage done in an accident
- Denying your coverage or claim outright due to "their" investigation, other technical factors related to your policy, or other excuses
- Making the low-ball offer - Once you've gone through everything that they require, you expect a reasonable and fair offer on your claim. Instead, you get . . . the low-ball offer. Any protest by you leads to the final page of the insurance company playbook—"take it or leave it."
Free Evaluation of Your Case Involving Injuries and Vehicle Damage
My first priority is my clients' physical well-being, and I am cautious and caring when it comes to diagnosis of potentially serious injuries after a car or other vehicle wreck. However, I also understand that lacking transportation can put you in a tremendous bind. In some cases, hiring me—as an attorney known throughout the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee for aggressive, skilled advocacy—can lead to surprisingly fast results.
If you believe you may have an injury and property damage claim, please contact me as soon as possible following your accident. If you are battling with an unreasonable insurer to get what you need, why not save yourself the aggravation and hire me instead. Remember—I handle the property damage aspects of your claim for free — there's no need to pull your hair out.
