If you’ve been injured in an accident, been made ill as a result of your working conditions, or otherwise suffered harm as a result of another’s choices, you are entitled to schedule a free personal injury consultation with our firm. All too often, when businesses offer free services, there is a “catch” involved. If you take advantage of these services, you’ll be pressured to pay for additional services, you’ll discover hidden fees to the supposedly “no-cost” experience, or you’ll otherwise end up feeling like you’ve been taken advantage of. It’s important to understand that when you schedule a no-cost case evaluation with our firm, there is no “catch.”

Law firms like ours choose to offer free consultations to prospective clients because we understand that injury victims can’t make informed choices about whether to enter into an attorney-client relationship until they know whether they have a case in the first place. If you haven’t earned a legal degree, it is unreasonable to expect that you spend your days reading about the evolution and nuances of federal, state, and local laws that may now be impacting your life. Spending all day learning and practically applying the ins and outs of personal injury law is our job. Offering you an hour or two of our firm’s time to better ensure that you understand your rights under the law and to clarify your legal options is the only reasonable way that we can expect that you’ll be able to make an informed decision about whether pursuing legal action is the best course of action for you and your family at this time.

Gathering Your Thoughts

The most important thing you can do when preparing for your case evaluation involves jotting down any and all questions and concerns you can think of. Your questions and concerns may relate to your legal options, your rights as an accident victim, and/or our firm’s approach to representing our clients. The last thing you want is to spend your consultation distracted by questions and concerns that you know you have but can’t remember in the moment. Your consultation is the best opportunity you have to get the information you need to make decisions related to your case and your insurance situation moving forward. Take time to make sure that you have your questions and concerns written down to reference while you’re meeting with our team. If you have loved ones who are invested in your case and/or will be affected by it, you may want to ask them to write down their questions and concerns as well.

Gathering Information

Asking questions allows you to make informed decisions about your legal situation. Similarly, our team will be asking you questions to better understand your case, as we won’t be able to provide you with personalized guidance if we don’t have access to information about what makes your situation unique. To help us better understand your legal situation, please bring in any documents, photographs, video, and/or contact information that will help us to evaluate your case in the most informed ways possible. Examples of potentially helpful information include: photos and/or video taken at the scene of your accident, discharge papers from the emergency department or a hospitalization necessitated by your injuries, accident reports filed by the police or your employer, insurance information for you and/or others involved in your accident, contact information and the names of anyone who witnessed your accident, etc. All of this information will help us to perceive a clearer “bigger picture” of your situation and whether you may have strong grounds upon which to file legal action at this time.

A Word About Insurance Representatives

During the time leading up to your consultation appointment, you may be contacted by insurance representatives. These insurance representatives may be employed by the company with which you hold a policy or they may be employed by a company that insures others who were involved in your accident. These insurance representatives may try to ask you questions about your accident, may ask you to give them a statement about what happened, and may even offer you a settlement. It is important to understand that you could potentially damage the strength of your case by speaking to these insurance representatives before you’ve spoken with our legal team.

Insurance companies aren’t loyal to policyholders or injury victims. They are for-profit enterprises and are therefore ultimately loyal to their bottom line. Therefore, no matter how kind or well-meaning an insurance representative might be, they are employed by a company that teaches them to – when possible – reject claims and to save as much money as possible on those that they pay out. Anything you say right now could be used as an excuse to devalue or reject your insurance claim. Additionally, accepting a settlement offer before you learn about whether it is fairly valued (which initial settlement offers very rarely are) could limit your legal options and limit your ability to collect the compensation amount you may be otherwise entitled to. In short, please avoid speaking with insurance representatives until after your consultation.

Free Legal Consultations Are Available

If you haven’t yet picked up the phone or reached out to our firm online to schedule an obligation-free, confidential personal injury consultation with our experienced legal team, please take a few minutes to do so now. The bottom line when it comes to scheduling a free case evaluation is that you can only benefit from better understanding your legal options and the only investment that you need to make in order to receive personalized legal guidance at no cost is time. This is a risk-free setting that will allow you to ask questions and receive professional legal answers to every one of those questions. Why take the time to explore your legal options and potentially learn that you’re entitled to compensation? Why not? We look forward to speaking with you.