- 1There is no sticker price on an injury claim. Value follows the injury, the treatment, and how well both are documented.
- 2The medical record carries the case, so go to an ER or urgent care, follow up, and report every symptom at every visit.
- 3Being told to go home and rest is not a reason to stop seeing doctors, because a gap in treatment is read as recovery.
- 4Check your own UM/UIM coverage now. The other driver may carry only California's 30/60 minimum.
- 5Sharing the blame for a crash shrinks a California claim without killing it. There is no fault cutoff.
- 6A prior injury can raise a claim's value rather than end it when the crash made the condition worse.
- 7Truck data, dash cam video and store footage are overwritten on short cycles, so preservation letters have to go out early.
- 8In an Uber or Lyft crash, the app period the driver was in decides the coverage, and app data proves which period it was.
- 9A clean CT or MRI does not rule out a brain injury. Symptoms documented consistently over time can prove it.
- 10Most claims must be filed within two years, and a claim against a public entity can have a six-month deadline.
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