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If you have been involved in a motorcycle accident you need to contact an attorney immediately. Unfortunately, motorcycle accidents often yield extremely complicated and severe injuries coupled with the inexplicable prejudice against the motorcyclist.

What Do I Do Following A Motorcycle Accident?

Immediately following a motorcycle accident the police should be called, medical attention sought and any witnesses to the accident identified.  Your insurance company should also be notified of the accident but you should not sign any document or give any recorded statement, without the presence of an attorney. While most insurance policies will require you to obey your insurance company’s request for information, your attorney may be present.  An attorney will also review any document you are asked to sign to determine its contents and make sure you are not waiving any rights you have.  As such, the retention of an attorney as soon as possible is key.

Photographs of the scene, injuries and damage to the vehicles should also be taken.  If these photographs were unable to be taken on the date of the accident, they can be taken after the accident, however sooner is always better than later.  If you cannot personally take these photographs, ask a loved one to help you.  These will be helpful to your attorney working on your case.

If your motorcycle needs to be towed from the scene, or if it has already been towed, instruct the company which removed your vehicle not to destroy the vehicle.  Ask them to store it.

You may receive a check in the mail from the insurance company.  Consult with an attorney before you sign and deposit this check.  Often these checks are grossly inadequate to the damages one has a result of a motorcycle accident and the signing and depositing of the check may waive your right to pursue action later.  Further, it is quite common that the attempt to settle the property damage to your vehicle may include language waiving your personal injury claim or may simply not take into consideration the full value of your motorcycle, especially if it has been customized.

Complicating an injured person’s already compromised situation are individuals and entities (such as adjusters, insurance companies, and their retained experts) who will immediately attempt to secure information before an injured person is represented by counsel.  Typically, this collection of information is truly an attempt to build defense arguments that an injured person’s damages are minimal, non-existent, or not related.

Therefore, it is important for injured people to secure counsel so that communication, if any, is conducted in the presence of the attorney and only after full and proper consultation.  Regardless of what you are told by an adjuster or insurance representative, do not give a statement to any adjuster until you have consulted with and secured an attorney.
Once representation begins, you will want an attorney who will examine your case from every angle and allow you the opportunity to do what is most important, focusing of getting well.  If resolution cannot be reached, you will want an attorney who will handle your lawsuit from filing to trial and who will advise you of the strengths and weaknesses in your case along the way.

If you have been injured in a motorcycle accident, it is important that you seek an attorney immediately so that you can protect your legal rights.

The attorneys of Weiss Legal Group, P.A. would be honored to answer any questions you have regarding your personal injury case.  Feel free to contact us by phone, e-mail, or by filling out the information on the left hand side of your screen to set up an appointment.