Pain and Suffering is the basic injury in a car accident. Anytime you suffer a bone fracture, neck, back, head, or other injury to your body you suffer pain.
Flora Templeton Stuart is a personal injury car accident attorney in Elizabethtown, Kentucky who helps her clients injured in car accidents get the medical treatment they need to prove their pain and suffering.
How Do You Prove Pain and Suffering in an Elizabethtown Car Wreck?
- Your treating physicians. This is the foundation. What a doctor writes in a chart while treating you carries more weight than anything you or your lawyer says later, because it was written before there was any reason to exaggerate. Objective findings matter most. An MRI showing a herniation, a fracture on an x-ray, or a documented range of motion loss is worth more than a note that says the patient reports pain. The physician that your personal injury car accident lawyer in Elizabethtown refers you to is crucial.
- Consistency of treatment. A claim treated steadily for four months reads very differently from the same injury treated twice with a seven week gap in the middle. The gap is the first thing an adjuster looks for, and it is the most common self-inflicted wound we see.
- Work records. Missed shifts, reduced hours, a job you had to give up, or duties someone else had to take over. This proves the disruption in a way that is hard to argue with.
- Photographs. Of the injury as it heals, and of the vehicle. Serious vehicle damage helps a jury understand the force involved.
When Should You Treat?
Get treated the day it happens. In Elizabethtown that is Baptist Health Hardin on North Dixie Avenue, and the responding officers will call an ambulance if you cannot get yourself there. That first record is what ties the injury to the collision, and without it the carrier will argue something else caused your pain.
Make sure a police report is made and get the report number.
Do not give a recorded statement to the other driver’s insurance company before speaking with a lawyer. Call our office at 888-782-9090 first. Being polite on a recorded line in week one is the most expensive courtesy people extend in these cases.
And do not wait long to get advice. Deadlines vary by claim type and circumstance, and evidence has a shelf life.
Consult With a Personal Injury Car Accident Attorney in Elizabethtown, KY
Our firm has represented injured people across Kentucky for 50 years. If you were hurt in a collision and want to know what your case will support, an Elizabethtown personal injury lawyer at our firm can review it with you.
Call Flora Templeton Stuart Accident Injury Lawyers at 888-782-9090 or contact us online. The consultation is free and without obligation, you will speak with an experienced attorney about your case, and nothing gets signed before you are ready. We have represented thousands of injured clients who have trusted our attorneys to get them a top settlement with excellent medical treatment.
