If you have been injured in a car accident should you settle your claim with the other insurance company directly or should you seek independent legal advice to pursue your claim for compensation? There are more and more cars on the road each year with the number of cars increasing. Whereas there is simply no evidence to support the argument of a compensation culture, the fact that there are more cars does lead to an increase in accidents. However, there are no more compensation claims made proportionally. However, as a result of the increase in car policies and compensation claims made insurers will look at every opportunity possible to reduce the amount of compensation they have to pay in settlement of any claims or to avoid paying compensation if it is not within the terms of their policy. One of the most popular methods for keeping the compensation bill to its minimum at the moment is try and settle compensation claims direct with the person making the claim. For example, if you are involved in a car accident and another driver drives into the rear of your vehicle, thereby causing damage to your car and to you in the form of a whiplash injury, the other driver’s insurance company might quickly make contact with you. You might first receive a telephone call from them and you may even be confused as to whether the company calling you is your own insurance company or the other driver’s insurance company. Once you have established that it is the other driver’s insurance …
We get a lot of calls from people who want to know what they should tell the insurance adjuster. The first thing you need to understand is that there are at least two insurance adjusters involved and the answer is different depending on which one you’re talking to. The insurance adjusters can be pretty aggressive, so this is why we get calls: because people have gotten 12 calls over the course of week or two and they want to know what to say. There are two insurance companies involved in any car crash. There is your insurance company, which provides you with personal injury protection PIP (sometimes called PIP) and there is the other insurance company for the driver who hit you. Now you deal with these two very differently. Your insurance company: you need to cooperate with to a certain extent because they’re going to pay up to 000 of your medical bills. But in order to do that, you need to fill out their forms and answer their questions. Now the one thing I would say with your own insurance company, even they’re supposed to be on your side is, Don’t give them a recorded statement. Now the reason for this is that a recorded statement can only be used against you. It can never been used in your favor. Sometimes your insurance company is going insist on it. Some of them do that sometimes without real rhyme or reason, and if they do it puts you in a tough spot, because if you refuse they may stop paying your medical benefits. In fact with our clients, when that happens …
Global News attempts to invite Mr. GHAZANFAR SIDDIQUE bbc.in for interview following the BBC’s Panorama CASH FOR CRASH investigation. What our reporter received was a barrage of sexually perverted abuse. On Monday 11th July 2011 at 8pm on BBC One, Panorama infiltrated a crash for cash criminal ring in order to gain insight and to investigate how criminals today are actually helping to drive up motor insurance premiums. Fraudulent car insurance claims are costing the UK insurance companies £2bn per year! The UK insurance industry has over just four years, seen a 43% rise in personal injury claims arising from a car accident. Just four years ago an average of 552000 personal injury claims resulting from a car accident were made which compares to the 791000 which were made last year! …
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Insurance company adjusters – who evaluate injury claims and offer settlements – work to get the best deal for the insurance company, not for the injured victim. When you are injured in an accident, here are 5 things they don’t want you to know: 1) You may be entitled to compensation for pain, suffering, and permanent disability or disfigurement – IN ADDITION to car repair or replacement, medical bill payment, and payment of lost wages. 2) Anything you say to an insurance company CAN AND WILL be used against you, to try to avoid paying your claim. 3) You can collect from your own insurance company if the person who hit you has no insurance. 4) If you file an injury claim against a friend or neighbor, it will not hurt them – their insurance company will pay you, not them. That’s people get insurance – to protect not just them, but everyone who may be hurt.. 5) When cases are handled by good attorneys, most can be settled without trial. Stokes & Kopitsky have the experience and knowledge needed to handle the most complicated accidental injury cases. Please call us, 24/7, for your free consultation. There is no fee unless and until we obtain an award or settlement for you, and we advance all costs. We are here to help you. Please call us toll-free at 1-800-700-5050 for experienced, caring, high-quality legal help.
A short video showing how Esri UK’s FraudAnalyst product can be used to analyse injury claims data, looking for hotspots in place and time and animating changes over time. Also mapping geographic distribution and size of claims. Background mapping is OS OpenData. Esri UK’s FraudAnalyst is an extension to Esri ArcGIS. Claims data is artificial for illustrative purposes only.
