AboutDoctor Settlement Expertise 27 years of front line plaintiff`s trial lawyer experience in PERSONAL INJURY INSURANCE CLAIMS. Along with other attorneys and insurance adjusters, we have created a website to help injured people settle their own personal injury claims. With the help from feedback from hundreds of satisfied members, www.settlementcentral.com has become THE AUTHORITY for Internet personal injury insurance claim settlements. I am humbled and honored if people can benefit from my experience and current volunteer work in helping injured people. I hope I can explain things in a manner that is useful for the questioner. If not, do not hesitate to e-mail me and I will take a second shot at it! Best Wishes for your physical and financial recovery.
Experience
Life Experience: 27 years of front line plaintiff's trial lawyer experience
Organizations: American Trial Lawyers Association (AAJ)
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association
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I am humbled and honored everytime I am selected to help injured people. And when people give feedback that they have benefited from my experience and current volunteer efforts, then that is a double honor and award for me.
Question HI,I had a auto accident while staying in Florida,I spend time in fl. and live and have my car registration in NY.I have a NY auto Policy. My question is do I hire a NY attorney or a FL. Attorney
Answer Hi Marie,
This is a great question since a lot of us travel so much these days. Any claim that does not settle has to be tried in the state of the accident (or you could sue the tortfeasor in her own state). Hence, Florida is the place with jurisdiction and venue for this case. So if it is likely to go to trial a Florida attorney will be needed at some point.
BUT I live in Washington, and my clients had accidents in California and Oregon that I handled by demand letter an phone from my office in Seattle. Likewise, a NY attorney could handle such a claim from your home area. It is not hard to learn the law regarding traffic accidents inasmuch as the Internet yields all statutes and case law.
Hiring a local NY attorney gives you the convenience of having your attorney close by. No problem getting in to her office. AND if a trial is necessary in Florida, then she will find an attorney for you and the two of them will decide between them how to divide the one attorney fee. You will not have to pay two attorney's fees—there will be just the one fee and the attorneys divide it.
Does it make sense to you to let you local attorneys take a shot at getting you a settlement, and then turning it over to the Florida trial attorney only as necessary for the claim to go forward? The e-mail is just as quick from your computer to the attorney, irrespective of whether or not she is in NY or Florida. Right?
NOW, having said all of that, have you given any thought to making your own settlement?
I am going to give you a lot of links to see if you feel you want learn how to make your own insurance settlement with free legal auto insurance information www.SettlementCentral.Com Learn DO IT YOURSELF INSURANCE CLAIM SETTLEMENTS
OK, Marie, let’s Look at self-help methods of resolving your claim. Learn how to settle your personal injury insurance claim AND DO IT YOURSELF.
Here is a series of pages that you can review. Take what makes sense to you and don't worry about the rest. Just get a flavor of how the system works without spending a ton of time right now.
By the way, did you know that getting an early settlement is a favorite trick of the insurance adjusters? Please see my website wherein we show Insurance Claim Adjuster Secret Tactics http://www.settlementcentral.com/page0092.htm
Do It Yourself Advantages, or do these claims need an attorney? As for an ATTORNEY, this does not seem to be a case that involves any legal issues in dispute nor any large or complex damages. Why should you pay someone one-third to do what you can do yourself? Do-It-Yourself Personal Injury Claims; Eliminate Personal Injury Attorneys' Fees; Save Thousands of Dollars Settling Your Own Insurance Claim http://www.settlementcentral.com/page3011.htm
Without having to join my website, I have given a lot of free information on handling insurance claims without having to join as a member. Read the module at "5 Easy Steps to Do-it-Yourself Insurance Claim Settlement" http://www.settlementcentral.com/page0102.htm
This stuff is not rocket science, but it will take some effort on your part to read and cut and paste letter examples and to communicate. But hundreds of people are doing it each day, and they are getting good results.
What if you get only two-thirds the way to your settlement goal? Well, you can get as big a settlement as you can and then turn it over to an attorney and save a lot of fees. Thus, you could go it alone just to get an insurance settlement offer, and then take that insurance settlement offer to a personal injury attorney, thus exempting the amount of the offer from her fees. Do It Yourself Personal Injury Settlement Offer Reduces Personal Injury Attorney Fees http://www.settlementcentral.com/page0109.htm
FINAL TOPIC, Marie: Effective communication with insurance claims adjusters. Establish Firm, Professional, and Positive Relationships With the Insurance Injury Claims Adjuster http://www.settlementcentral.com/page0059.htm
Always communicate with the adjuster in writing, showing your own analysis of value. It is OK I guess to have one call or so, but no more. Always have your information and ammunition in writing to give to the adjuster.
Let him know that you are FIRM IN YOUR RESOLVE to get what you are demanding (NOT "asking", since that invites a counter-offer, but instead "demanding" as fair and reasonable compensation) by asking him what the options are to resolve the matter fairly should he not agree to a reasonable claim value. In other words, let him know that you will go through with a court filing if need be.
Remember these tips, do your homework, print out your evidence, show resolve to get your fair settlement, and you will DO JUST FINE.
I trust that my extra time here has produced some information that has been of value to you, and thus I would respectfully request that you take the time to locate the FEEDBACK FORM on this site and leave some feedback for me.
