Personal Injury Accident – The Necessity of Preserving Evidence
If you have suffered a personal injury as a result of the negligence of someone else, the first days are amongst the most important for your potential case. The first thing you should do is contact a personal injury attorney to discuss the merits of your case and to strategize a game plan for preserving evidence in your case.
You can bet that any insurance adjuster or opposing counsel will attack any insufficiency of evidence or any holes in your case; therefore, having the evidence to support your claim is of paramount importance.
What Does A Good Personal Injury Lawyer Do?
- There are a number of things that a seasoned personal injury lawyer will immediately do. For one, the attorney should visit the scene of the incident or accident. While present at the scene, photographs should be taken and an assessment of the dangerous condition or the state of the premises should be made.
- From there, it is necessary to preserve any physical evidence associated with the accident and an immediate search for any potential eyewitnesses should be undertaken. Contact with any medical providers and securing medical records should happen simultaneously with these initial investigatory steps.
- Finally, with respect to the initial steps, contacting the potential defendants to put them on notice of the injury. This can help prevent an insurance company from disclaiming coverage and places all potential defendants on notice of the accident.
These initial steps must be done as soon as possible after the accident that caused your personal injury. Without securing and preserving evidence at the outset, your personal injury case could be over before it starts.
Matthew Hug is an experienced Albany personal injury attorney. He specializes in cases of this nature and recently secured a products liability settlement with a large corporation for nearly $1,000,000. Contact Hug Law today to discuss your potential case!