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Being involved in a South Carolina car accident can be horrifying and agonizing. On top of that, you’ve got to deal with insurance, which tends to be just plain frustrating at best. Even the smallest fender-benders aren’t immune.
When you innocently call about straightening out your clear-cut claim, expect long delays on hold, unreturned calls, letters demanding enormous amounts of info you’re sure have nothing to do with the case—even your tax returns and unlimited access to every medical record in your whole life, and possibly mean or unsympathetic adjusters who don’t seem in a hurry to help or do the right thing.
But, in this case, foreknowledge is power. We’d like to give you a hint or two about what you’re about to undergo, whether you go it alone, or decide to look into hiring a Spartanburg wreck lawyer to handle the frustration so you don’t have to.
Generally, this is how a South Carolina car accident claim works:
Our Spartanburg car and motorcycle accident lawyer developed a process to deal with all this frustration, to streamline obtaining a proper settlement. Get your questions answered. Call us today at (864) 582-0416 or fill out a contact form here.
Claims are settled, or paid, when the insurance company decides it has enough information to value the claim and it agrees with you to pay a certain amount of money to end the claim. Here’s how settlement works, from the easiest to the hardest to settle:
Don’t even think about taking their money until you’re done with all your medical treatments and have copies of all your medical bills and records, plus any other evidence about the claim, like pictures, the crash report, lost wage statements, etc. Once you have those, you can send them (copies only; keep the original documents) to the adjuster with a letter laying out how the accident was all the at-fault driver’s fault. You will summarize all the damages you suffered from the accident, including a list of your medical bills and a request for an amount you think is fair to settle your claim. Then you can discuss settlement with the adjuster.
Then it’s time to file a lawsuit.
If you think you don’t need a lawyer at this point, remember what Abe Lincoln said: “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” If you needed an operation, you wouldn’t do it yourself, would you? The legal system is complicated and what you could lose is too precious for you to risk making a huge mistake representing yourself.
If you cannot come to an agreement with the insurance company, or just don’t feel like you can properly handle all the details and the adjuster’s efforts to cheapen your claim, we will meet with you for free. You can also email or start a live chat to get your questions answered. Call us at toll-free at (864) 582-0416 today.
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