Reclaiming What Was Taken From You
As you go about your daily routine, minding your own business, the careless driving of another person can suddenly and wrongly take from you what is rightly yours.
A distracted and thoughtless person driving drunk, texting while driving, or simply disregarding the basic traffic rules that we all have to follow can suddenly deprive you of your vehicle, your health, and your right to live free of physical pain.
If your injuries are serious, long term, or permanent, there likely will be a battle with the other driver and his insurance company.
Here is what the insurance company will do:
- Demand a recorded statement before it will take any action. (The recorded statement is for cross examining you if your case goes to trial.)
- Even if the other driver was cited, insist upon a “liability investigation” while it delays in repairing your vehicle
- Attempt to blame you for all or part of the crash, even if the other driver was cited
- If it does admit that you were injured, insist that your injuries were minimal, and that you are not really experiencing the pain that you have
Here is what John Evans will do:
- Protect you from the tactics of the insurance company
- Identify each potential source of insurance. (The minimum limits for liability insurance in Arizona is $25,000 per injured person from a car crash. Often, this is completely inadequate to cover medical bills and damages. John Evans carefully searches for all insurance, so that there is as much insurance coverage as possible for the damages of his injured clients)
- File an insurance claim for you
- Help you get medical treatment if you do not have health insurance
- Obtain witness statements and public records to prove that the other driver was at fault
- Once you are finished with medical treatment, gather and assemble your medical records and bills, confirm that they are complete, and organize and analyze them
- Obtain documentation of your income loss and other economic losses
- Prepare a settlement demand to present to the insurance company
- Negotiate with the insurance company for a settlement
- Negotiate with medical creditors to potentially reduce the medical bills you owe due to the crash (especially when there is inadequate insurance coverage)
- If the insurance company does not negotiate in good faith, file a lawsuit whenever necessary
- Gather exhaustive and complete witnesses statements and evidence in the pretrial proceedings to prove your case
- Retain world class expert witnesses to explain complex information to the jury in your case
- Obtain top quality demonstrative exhibits for your case, including graphics and animations, to help the jury understand your injuries, and to teach them the anatomy that they will need to know to comprehend your physical pain
- Carefully plan and structure the arguments and evidence for trial
- Mediate the case before trial so that a mediator may bring the parties to a settlement
- If the case does not settle in mediation, thoroughly prepare witnesses for testimony.
It is often possible to settle a case before trial. However,John is always prepared for a trial, if a trial is necessary to obtain justice. John is also always prepared for an appeal, and he has successfully represented clients in the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court, when insurance companies have appealed John’s successful litigation outcomes.
Justice in an injury case means a fair payment for an injured person’s damages. Damages are the things that have been taken from an injured person by the carelessness of the other driver.
Damages that John Evans recovers for his clients are:
- Medical bills
- Lost income
- Loss of earning potential
- Physical pain and suffering
- Mental pain and suffering
- Physical or mental disability
- Disfigurement and scarring
- Loss of quality of life
- Property loss or damage
The damages of injured people from a car crash are unique to each person. That is why John avoids the “assembly line/ cookie cutter approach” that some large, advertising, high case volume firms use. It is important to John to take the time to listen to and to understand each of his clients, so that he understands how to present each client’s unique damages.
If you need help, please call John Evans, Attorney at Law, at 480-573-0600 for a free consultation.
