Massachusetts Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation Law Blog

¿Debo contratar a un abogado para un accidente automovilístico menor?

Casi todo el mundo en un momento u otro experimentará la desgracia de verse envuelto en un accidente automovilístico. Muchos accidentes automovilísticos, afortunadamente, involucran impactos menores que resultan en muy poco daño a la propiedad de los vehículos involucrados.

Existe la suposición de que un accidente automovilístico menor no causa ni puede causar lesiones personales a los ocupantes del vehículo. Ese es un mito que ha sido desmentido por la ciencia. Es un hecho que incluso una colisión menor de vehículo motorizado puede causar que una persona experimente lesiones personales y, a menudo, lesiones personales muy graves. Muchas personas que experimentan un accidente automovilístico menor desarrollan lentamente el dolor derivado del accidente.

Almost everyone at one time or another will experience the misfortune of being involved in a car accident. Many car accidents, thankfully, involve minor impacts that result in very little, if any, property damage to the involved vehicles.

There is an assumption that a minor car accident does not and cannot cause personal injuries to the occupants of the vehicle. That is a myth that has been debunked by science. It is a fact that even a minor motor vehicle collision can cause an individual to experience personal injuries, and oftentimes, very serious personal injuries. Many people who experience a minor car accident do slowly develop pain stemming from the accident.

Sometimes, this pain can be delayed for days or even weeks, but before you know it, you have neck and or back pain that is not going away. For many people, this type of injury can even get worse and become very significant with time. That is why no matter how the accident happened, and no matter how little property damage was sustained to the vehicles, it is always wise to at least consult with a Boston personal injury lawyer for a free consultation following a minor car accident.

I frequently say to my clients that insurance companies are in the business of making money and collecting premiums as opposed to paying money out to deserving claimants. Insurance adjusters are trained by the insurance company to use common defenses in response to a claim that is presented. The following are some of those common claim defenses that are used by insurance company adjusters to fight back and resist paying fair value for fair and legitimate car accident claims.

The first common defense used by car insurance companies is to claim that there was little or no property damage sustained to the vehicles involved in the collision. This is perhaps the most popular car accident claim defense used by car insurance companies. Their argument is essentially that injury to a person inside the vehicle is unlikely when there is a very small degree or extent of damage sustained to the vehicle.

Therefore, they claim that it’s unlikely that a personal injury could reasonably follow from such a low-impact accident. Typically, we will argue in that situation that lack of property damage does not correlate to lack of bodily injury harm to the person inside. The basis for that argument is that the occupant of the vehicle absorbs most of the damage as opposed to the vehicle itself.

Nosotros, aquí en la oficina de abogado de Christopher Earley, hemos estado bastante ocupados las últimas semanas resolviendo con éxito, los casos de nuestros clientes. Nuestro enfoque siempre ha sido y sigue siendo, representar los heridos y sus familias. Aquí hay algunas descripciones breves de algunos acuerdos recientes que hemos podido lograr para nuestros clientes hasta ahora en 2021.

Acuerdo 1

Representamos a una persona que resultó gravemente herida en un ciclomotor. Nuestro cliente, mientras operaba su ciclomotor, estaba intentando girar a la derecha y el vehículo culpable venía en la dirección opuesta al intentar girar a la izquierda en una intersección. El automóvil no vio a nuestro cliente en su ciclomotor y, por lo tanto, golpeó a nuestro cliente causándole graves lesiones corporales. Nuestro cliente necesitaba someterse a un tratamiento médico extenso para abordar las lesiones del accidente.

We here at the law office of Christopher Earley, have been rather busy the past few weeks in successfully resolving cases for our clients. Our focus has always been and remains, representing only the injured and their families. Here are some brief descriptions of some recent settlements we have been able to achieve for our clients thus far in 2021.

Settlement 1

We represent an individual who was seriously injured on a moped. Our client, while operating his moped, was attempting to turn right, and the at-fault vehicle was coming in the opposite direction in attempting to turn left at an intersection. The automobile did not see our client on his moped and therefore struck our client causing him serious bodily injuries. Our client needed to undergo extensive medical treatment to address his injuries from the accident.