When Should I Hire an Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer

You may want to consider hiring a personal injury lawyer in Atlanta right after your accident. If you’re uncertain who is responsible for your injury, your injury is serious, or you have lost someone who suffered a personal injury, an Atlanta personal injury attorney can provide legal representation and lead your case. 

Most personal injury law firms offer free initial consultations. Take advantage of the offer and speak with a legal team about your case. 

Reasons to Hire an Atlanta Personal Injury Attorney Right Away

Cases that involve severe injuries, death, or multiple potentially liable parties may be less overwhelming to navigate with an attorney by your side. Your accident attorney can walk you through each step of the legal process.

Working with a personal injury lawyer means they can:

Communicate With Stubborn Insurance Companies

Some insurance companies prefer to throw up smokescreens to delay or deny your claim rather than treat it with the thoughtful care you deserve. A personal injury attorney will know how to counter false accusations of liability, unnecessary requests for duplicate paperwork, or lowball compensation settlement offers.

You don’t want to risk saying anything that might jeopardize your personal injury claim. When you hire a lawyer to manage your case, you don’t need to interact with insurance adjusters. 

Explain the Types of Damages You May Seek Compensation for

Serious injuries can cause ongoing problems that drain your finances and stamina. When you’re the one battling through recovery every day, it’s difficult to realize the extent of your losses. An attorney will help you account for all of your past, current, and future losses as well as assign a reasonable dollar amount to each. When you suffer a personal injury, your recoverable losses may include:

• Medical costs from the day of your injury to any future expenses foreseen by your healthcare team
• Income lost during your recovery and potential loss of future earnings
• Out-of-pocket expenses
• Property damage, especially in a motor vehicle accident case
• Pain and suffering

You deserve compensation for your economic and non-economic losses. Working with an attorney makes it easier to calculate the total value of your case. It also helps you make sure you aren’t forgetting to include any recoverable losses in your demand for compensation. 

Navigate Complications That Arise in Your Case

Any case that involves you investigating, researching, or understanding points of law may be one worth speaking about with an accident attorney. Such cases may include but are not limited to:

• Medical malpractice
• A defective product
• Involvement of multiple parties
• Involvement of city, state, or federal government entities, or a foreign government entity or citizen
• A lawsuit in civil court
• The injury was a result of criminal intent

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Personal Injury FAQs

Why You Should Not Wait to Reach Out to a Personal Injury Firm After an Accident

Getting an early start on your case may benefit you because: 

You Have a Limited Time to File a Personal Injury Lawsuit

Georgia generally gives you two years from the date you are injured to file a personal injury lawsuit per O.C.G.A. § 9-3-33. This usually allows time to put together and file a compensation claim with an insurance company. Should negotiations fail to reach a fair settlement agreement, you can still file a lawsuit to pursue a compensation judgment.

The two-year limit may change if you are bringing action against a government defendant or the plaintiff is mentally unfit to pursue legal action. If you did not discover the injury until after the date it occurred, that is another reason the two-year limit may change.

During your initial discussion with a personal injury attorney, you may discover that the statute of limitations prevents you from moving forward with a personal injury lawsuit. Our firm will ensure you’re aware of the statute of limitations to avoid running out of time to seek justice. 

You Should Know Modified Comparative Negligence Laws

In Georgia, you can recover some compensation for your injuries if you were less than 50% responsible for the action that caused your injury. If you are at least 50% responsible for the action causing your injury, you cannot recover compensation. A personal injury attorney from our firm can work to prove the at-fault party caused the accident and owes you compensation. 

How to Choose a Personal Injury Attorney

A common checklist for choosing a personal injury attorney includes:

• Confirm that the attorney you will work with knows how to navigate personal injury law and has successfully recovered compensation for cases similar to yours
• Look for openness, easy communication, and transparency during your free case consultation
• Your attorney will negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf, but the case may go to court and if it does, you want your attorney to have courtroom experience
• Determine how easy it is to set appointments when you need them, get phone calls or email messages returned, and that the staff is friendly, patient, and caring

You may also want to work with a firm that works on a contingency-fee basis. This benefits you because you won’t have to pay any attorney’s fees upfront. Instead, you only pay for legal services after your case is won or settled. Your attorney takes a percentage of your compensation, so you don’t owe anything out of pocket. 

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Manage Your Atlanta Personal Injury Case With Bader Scott Injury Lawyers

Our personal injury attorneys offer free case evaluations and we work on a contingency-fee basis. You do not have the financial burden of paying attorney’s fees until and unless we recover compensation for you.

We’re happy to answer your questions and invite you to schedule a visit. If we believe we can help you further, we fight by your side from day one to get you the compensation settlement or judgment you deserve.

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