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Consumer Tips On What To Do After a North Las Vegas Car Accident

After a sudden car accident, it is normal to find yourself unsure of what steps to take. Your car needs repair, and you need medical care for your injuries. You may not have medical insurance and can have difficulty with your finances. You should quickly seek the advice of an experienced North Las Vegas Car Accident lawyer such as Jack Bernstein of Jack Bernstein and Associates who has extensive experience with handling car accident cases for more than twenty eight years.

You can call Personal Injury Lawyer Jack Bernstein or his partner Scott Poisson now and speak to them personally at 1-888-592-4529 or 702-434-4444 and go over your case at no charge. You can email them now and they will respond immediately or quickly if not on line to

Insurance companies have licensed insurance representatives who handle your car accident claim. The insurance adjuster’s ultimate goal is to protect the insurance company. They will not put your interest, as the car accident victim above their employers. The car accident insurance adjuster’s job who is handling a car accident that happened in North Las Vegas is to pay ONLY what the law forces them to pay. No insurance company pays a nickel more to a car accident victim than Nevada law requires them to. Insurance companies are businesses which are defined as vehicles for profit. They’re concern is to earn maximum profit and not to be generous with the victims of car accidents. Insurance companies don’t rush to get your car fixed or to make certain you receive as much medical care as possible, and definitely don’t try and pay you the most money they can.

It is not beneficial to handle your own North Las Vegas Car accident case with the insurance adjuster. Whether you hire our personal injury law office or another one which specializes in helping with North Las Vegas car accidents it is helpful to have a lawyer experienced in handling car accident cases to increase the chances for the best outcome for your claim. Our case managers and lawyers assist you in getting your property damage repaired from the car accident or in getting the payoff for your car if it is a total loss. Our paralegals help you with the forms which are read by one of our experienced North Las Vegas lawyers familiar with car accident property damage release documents. It is essential that the correct release form for property damage, rental and storage charges or any related car accident caused property damage be used. If not, by signing a property damage release form, you can sign away your right to get additional money for additional property damage discovered after the initial repair or for physical injuries from the car accident. I have witnessed insurance adjusters send a general release with the property damage check, which would prevent you from recovering any money damages for your injury case if not changed to preserve that claim.

Working on your own physical injury case likewise has pitfalls. Lawyers recommend you not rush to settle the physical injury claim after a North Las Vegas car accident. When experiencing pain you should treat with a doctor experienced with working on victims of car accidents and other trauma type injuries. Before you settle the case, you need to get medical help such as physical therapy, massage, chiropractic care and other medical attention which your doctor believes you need to alleviate your injuries. Sometimes injuries will get worse as time passes, rather than getting better. Doctors and Chiropractors experienced in helping car accident trauma victims will have you undergo an MRI or CAT scan to diagnose structural damage to your body such as herniated discs which may require epidural injections or surgical repair to alleviate your pain. Some nerve injuries develop slowly such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Many important reasons exist not to settle your car accident case too quickly.

If you do not have medical coverage most doctors will want you to pay with your credit card or cash at the time the medical care is given. Having to pay money up front for medical attention following your North Las Vegas car accident can come at the worst time financially when you suddenly miss time from your job. Your doctor or chiropractor will usually provide the medical care to heal you and wait for their money if you have a lawyer. We sign a lien letter which allows them to get paid out of the settlement for the car accident. Additionally there are MRI companies, orthopedic doctors, pharmacies and other medical offices that will give you medical help and wait to get their money until your case settles. An important reason an experienced attorney like Jack Bernstein who handles car accident cases in North Las Vegas is needed is that he will sign the letter of protection allowing the doctor to have confidence that his office will pay the medical bills when the settlement money comes in. Nevada Bar Ethics Rules governing lawyers require them to pay the doctors bill that has a signed letter of protection. When a patient is not represented by a lawyer, the medical provider is without the same protection since non lawyers are not under an obligation to follow those rules. A complaint would need to be filed in the Clark County Court by the medical provider against the patient if they failed pay the money owed at the time of settlement. Doctors don’t want to be in a position to sue if they are not paid at the time of settlement. Many times they will not provide the care for your car accident injuries unless an experienced and trusted lawyer such as Jack Bernstein or one of the lawyers at his office are representing you for your car accident case.

The same reasoning applies to your ability to get a loan. Funding companies that will loan money to someone injured in a car accident normally do that only when a lawyer is working on the car accident case that signs an agreement to pay the loan back out of the settlement. Nevada Bar rules of Professional Ethics that control Nevada lawyers, force the lawyer to pay the loan money to the funding company at the time of settlement. Without a lawyer such as Jack Bernstein or the lawyers working at his office who handle North Las Vegas car accident cases, the Funding Company would need to file a lawsuit against you to force the loan repayment if you didn’t pay them out of the settlement and they don’t do business that way.

A few car rental companies exist that give a rental car to a person in a car accident and wait to get paid at the time the North Las Vegas car accident case settles. They do so only when you have a personal injury lawyer such as Jack Bernstein giving them confidence they will get their money out of the settlement of your car accident case.

A crucial reason to hire an experienced Lawyer to represent you for your car accident is the insurance claims team made up of the adjuster, supervisor, and manager that meet and discuss how much they will need to pay for your injury claim consider the difficulty you would have in filing a lawsuit in the Clark County District Court if they don’t offer you a high enough settlement.  Insurance companies have a team that works on your case to maximize their position against you, and strongly consider who represents you and whether they will file a lawsuit if a fair offer is not made. They know that non lawyers don’t know the complex legal rules of procedure necessary to handle a car accident case in Clark County District Court where a North Las Vegas car accident case MUST be brought. Don’t let a lawyer from another state not licensed in Nevada work on your case. The insurance representatives will know that lawyer might want to settle for a lower amount since he or she will not be licensed to file your case in the Nevada District Court. The lawyer may not know there are two years to bring your case in court or that it is barred by the statute of limitations.

Do not think you will be giving away money by hiring an Experienced North Las Vegas car accident lawyer such as Jack Bernstein who supervises the handling of the car accident cases in his office. An experienced car accident lawyer adds a lot of value resulting in your case settling on average for a far greater amount of money. I personally get involved in every car accident negotiation and settlement and review the offers and demands with my lawyer staff and work on many of the negotiations myself. I worked on more than thirty thousand personal injury cases and have a keen sense for the value of each case, to properly advise my clients. Typically an experienced personal injury lawyer will get you a high enough settlement which covers the attorney fees and leaves you with more money than you would obtain on your own while making sure the technical legal issues get solved. It is important to keep in mind that your car accident case is taken on a contingency fee contract, meaning you only pay us if we win and we get paid only out of the money we win for you. (Written by Jack G. Bernstein, Esq.)