What to decide first
Consider the harm, the parties involved, the available evidence, and whether an attorney review may help.
Case focus
Serious Crash Litigation
Attorney review for high-speed collisions, head-on crashes, and rollovers involving hospitalization, surgery, or permanent injury.
Evidence to preserve
Hospitalization, surgery, brain injury, spinal injury, fracture, permanent impairment, or fatal loss.
Disputed fault, missing video, conflicting witness accounts, or an insurer pushing an early recorded statement.
Attorney review
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Priority Checklist
If you are reading this from the hospital: avoid signing a release or giving a recorded statement until you understand the injury, coverage, and evidence issues. Early review can help identify vehicle data, photos, witnesses, and insurance layers.
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Not All Accidents Are The Same
We focus on crashes that change lives: high-speed impacts, head-on collisions, rollovers, drunk driving crashes, disputed-fault collisions, and wrecks involving surgery, permanent impairment, or death.
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Insurance Issues That May Affect a Claim
An insurer may dispute responsibility, medical causation, the extent of an injury, or the amount of a claimed loss. Common issues include:
- Timing: Medical, responsibility, coverage, or negotiation disputes can extend the claim timeline.
- Causation and fault: The insurer may argue that a condition was pre-existing or that another person shares responsibility.
- Medical review: The insurer may rely on records, examinations, or retained reviewers to challenge the nature or extent of an injury.
We counter this by building the record early: crash mechanics, medical causation, treatment chronology, coverage, and the facts needed to test the insurer's position.
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Finding Coverage
In a serious injury matter, available liability coverage may not account for all documented losses. Coverage review may include:
- Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM/UIM): Your own policy may provide additional coverage when the at-fault driver has too little insurance.
- Commercial or business-use policies: Additional coverage may depend on whether the driver was working, using the vehicle for a business purpose, or covered under another policy, together with the driver's status and the policy terms.
- Alcohol-vendor responsibility: A separate claim against a licensed alcohol vendor is fact-specific and may require evidence about the driver's apparent intoxication when alcohol was sold or served, the vendor's conduct, and whether that conduct legally caused or contributed to the crash.
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Evidence Questions in Serious Crashes
A serious car-crash review may consider:
- Highway or multi-vehicle crashes: roadway layout, traffic controls, speed evidence, vehicle data, witnesses, and each driver's conduct.
- Suspected impairment: admissible evidence of alcohol or drug impairment, causation, and whether the facts and governing law support any enhanced-damages issue.
- Possible distraction: witness accounts, device-use evidence obtainable through consent or lawful process, vehicle data, and the timing of communications.
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