 Every reputable study finds that motorcycle accident victims with a lawyer usually do a lot better, even after the legal bills, than those motorcycle accident victims who try to handle their own cases.
“What does a lawyer do that gets you more money?”
The first thing a lawyer does is pull all of the information together. Not only the obvious things, like medical bills, medical records, and wage loss information, but the not so obvious things.
- Are your injuries affecting your personal life?
- If you can’t perform well at work, what problems are you having at home?
- What are the things you can’t do around the house?
- Some injuries may interfere with your sex life.
- There may be events in your life that were planned, but now they are on hold.
You may not be able to make good sense of your medical records, but a motorcycle accident lawyer can not only understand your injury, but be able to present it clearly. A good motorcycle accident lawyer will find ways to demonstrate your motorcycle accident related injuries and disabilities to a jury in a way that they will relate to. If you are right handed, and your right shoulder is torn up from a motorcycle accident, how do you shampoo or comb your hair? If your foot is difficult to lift, how do you walk over an object in your path? If you have scars, how do they make you feel when you meet someone new that you want to impress?
The motorcycle accident lawyer can help prepare the case so that a jury or an insurance adjuster understands whose fault the motorcycle accident is. The motorcycle accident lawyer must understand how to reconstruct the motorcycle accident fully. Where were the participants when they first saw each other? What did they see at that time? What did they do next? What could they do? How did the particular characteristics of the motorcycle play into things?
 Would a lawyer not familiar with motorcycles cover the visibility issues properly? Would they know why a motorcycle rider has to “lay a bike down”? Would they know that there are motorcycles with linked front and rear brakes and others that are not linked, so that each brake has to be applied separately? Would a lawyer not familiar with motorcycles realize that the headlight goes on any time the ignition goes on? Many automobile drivers will testify that the motorcycle did not have a headlight on. We know that is untruthful. We know this because these issues come up automatically in most cases.
Large settlements almost never take place without a lawyer’s help. The larger the case, and the better the case, the more the insurance company has at stake. You might think that these are exactly the cases the insurance companies like to settle. In fact, because more money is at stake, these are exactly the cases that it pays the insurance companies to fight and stall. Further, these are exactly the cases when a motorcycle accident lawyer can do the most for you to see that the case is clearly and fully presented.
A lot of work goes into presenting the case properly for a motorcycle rider, after a motorcycle accident. There is a bias by many people against motorcycle riders that needs to be overcome by examining all the parts of the puzzle. It is my belief that a good motorcycle accident lawyer earns the fee and fully prepares in presenting one of these cases.
Call and let us help you now. Toll free 1-877-CO-CYCLE (262-9859), 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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