Relentless Renton Personal Injury Lawyer Takes On Insurance Companies

Injuries can happen for all sorts of reasons, even life-threatening ones, but not all of them will be eligible for a personal injury claim for compensation. For that, your injury must have been caused by someone else, and second, that person, company, or institution must have been acting negligently.

Negligence is often defined, in the law, as failing to show the basic or relevant level of care due to you, but what does that look like in real life? Examples, unfortunately, abound, as there are many ways and situations in which people behave recklessly or carelessly, leading to injuries or even fatalities.

For example, we have helped:

• Parents struggling to care for a child with severe disabilities following a birth injury caused by a careless doctor.
• A father who was severely burned trying to save his children from a fire caused by faulty electrical wiring installed by a greedy landlord.
• Countless car, truck, and even bicycle accident victims throughout the Seattle Area, including several in Renton.

If you are not sure whether your injury qualifies for personal injury compensation, our personal injury lawyer can help you figure that out. And if it turns out that you do have a valid claim, we will fight tirelessly to make sure no insurance company deprives you of the money you need and deserve.

Why Do Insurance Companies Make Having A Lawyer Indispensable?

In an ideal world, no one would need personal injury lawyers, and we would be delighted to live in that world. Insurance companies would simply pay whatever was needed after an accident when their client was at fault. Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in.

Here, insurance companies are motivated by profit, and that means only paying out what they absolutely have to and paying out far less whenever they can get away with it. This is where personal injury lawyers come in; we fight to make sure you get a fair and reasonable settlement and do not fall for their tricks and tactics.

Stop The Insurance Companies From Taking Advantage Of You

If you get injured and do not have an attorney, insurance companies will smell blood in the water. They will try to get you to sign away your right to further compensation by offering a seemingly large sum early on, which they know full well will not cover close to the full extent of your injury’s costs.

If you refuse that, they will try to catch you in a mistake or lull you into admitting you were partially responsible or not as injured as you claim. They will be friendly on the phone, ask you important questions, and record every second of the seemingly innocent conversation to use against you later. They will comb through your social media and sometimes even hire a private investigator to follow you to try to find a reason to reduce or deny your claim.

If you have a personal injury attorney on your side, not only will we make sure you sign nothing that isn’t fair or reasonable, but we will also handle all communication with the insurance company to make sure no vulnerability is offered (and keep them from bothering or badgering you).

Protecting The Full Value Of Your Personal Injury Insurance Claim

While minor scrapes and superficial injuries may not come with a substantial price tag, any serious injuries can quickly become prohibitively expensive, and insurance companies are notoriously tight-fisted when it comes to paying out. They are not going to tell you how much you are owed, nor give you a second run at the process if you fail to include some important costs or losses.

Your personal injury lawyer makes sure that every aspect of your injury and its cost is reflected in your claim for compensation. From your medical bills to the income you have lost because of the injury, to the emotional trauma and any loss in the quality of your life, these costs must be tallied or estimated and added to the claim, or you won’t see a cent of compensation for them.

Negotiating A Fair Settlement Or Fighting For One In Court

Once the full extent of your injury or loss is known and presented with evidence to the insurance company, the negotiation process will start. Most of the time, when you have worked with a skilled personal injury lawyer, the insurance company will have no choice but to offer a fair and reasonable settlement or risk losing a heck of a lot more in a trial.

If they refuse to offer a settlement you are willing to accept, the case may have to go to court. Only a small percentage of claims do because insurers know it isn’t worth the cost, but we still prepare as if they might. That way, the insurer knows we mean business and cannot back you into accepting something that is not in your best interest.

R. HALE LAW | We help you move forward after an injury or loss.

When you have been hurt by someone else, the law gives you the right to demand that they cover the costs of your recovery and losses. But too often, the insurance companies that are supposed to help make sure those costs can be paid do everything in their power to avoid doing so.

If you have been hurt, lost a loved one, or have a child suffering after a difficult birth in Renton or anywhere near Seattle, Washington, we can help ensure you get the compensation you are entitled to. Compensation that you need to stay afloat and move on.

To get a free consultation to discuss your situation with our firm, just call (206) 206-0213 or reach out to us online. It will be our honor to fight for your recovery.