Car accidents can happen in the blink of an eye and change your life forever without warning. We see this every day when we work with clients in Hamilton and the surrounding areas who have been through this. We at Longo Lawyers know there’s more to do after a car accident than just fix the cars and fill out insurance forms.
Hamilton has a lot of busy streets and roads that make driving tough and can lead to big accidents. Heavy traffic on the QEW, construction zones in the downtown core and intersections where multiple main roads meet are all places where even careful drivers can get hurt by someone else’s carelessness. Plus many areas are industrial and large commercial trucks use the road with passenger cars which adds to the risk.
As soon as they hear of a car accident, insurance companies get to work. Their teams start investigating while the victims are still trying to figure out what happened to them and may not even fully understand how bad their injuries are. These first inquiries are all about finding ways to limit the insurance company’s financial liability not making sure the injured parties get fair compensation for their losses.
We have seen many people who are hurt in car accidents think their injuries aren’t that bad at first especially right after the accident when adrenaline hides the pain and other symptoms. But problems like whiplash, concussions and soft tissue injuries often get worse or develop in the days and weeks after the event. If this isn’t documented from the start it can make medical treatment and legal claims harder.
Most people don’t have the legal knowledge to deal with the complexities that come up after a car accident. To figure out who is at fault you have to look at police reports, witness statements, traffic laws, road conditions and sometimes even evidence from accident reconstruction. And you have to have handled many similar cases over the years to know the different types of insurance coverage and the limits of each policy. Medical expenses are just the first things that affect your finances after a car accident. Families who rely on a steady income can struggle right away when they lose paychecks especially if the injuries keep them from going back to work for weeks or months. And some injuries leave people with lifelong disabilities that make it harder for them to earn money in the future and require medical care and rehabilitation services for the rest of their lives.
We give each car accident case the attention it deserves. We look into all the information we can find, talk to medical experts when we need to and work with accident reconstruction experts to get a full picture of what happened. This preparation helps us build the best cases for our clients so they can get the most money.
There are time limits to file traffic accident claims because of the statute of limitations. If you wait too long to get legal help you can lose important evidence or not be able to get compensation at all. We advise accident victims to get in touch with us as soon as possible after their accident to protect their rights and preserve the evidence.
Many people are worried about how much it will cost to hire a lawyer when they are already under a lot of stress. Clients don’t have to pay anything unless we win their claims and get them money. This is how we work. This setup gets rid of financial barriers and lets everyone get good legal help no matter how much money they have.
We handle many types of personal injury cases including slip and fall situations. This gives us a lot of experience in many areas of injury law. This broad range of experience helps us understand how different injuries affect people’s lives and makes us better at getting our clients the right amount of money.
When you hire us to handle your car accident case in Hamilton you get dedicated advocates who will fight for your justice and truly care about your recovery and future health.