What You Need To Know To Protect Yourself

Write down the date, time, names, telephone numbers, addresses and license numbers of all witnesses and other people and vehicles involved in your injury. Write down their insurance informations. Get a copy of the police report. That’s your evidence.

Keep the manufactured product or medicine that injured you. Do not give it to anyone. That is your evidence. No evidence, no case.

Purchase an inexpensive 35mm camera (usually less than $10) and you or someone that you trust should immediately photograph the collision scene, tire tracks, intersection, road way, walkway, parking area, and your vehicle from al sides before anything changes. Wrongdoers often change the evidence. That’s your evidence.

Keep all receipts and documents showing dates and times of purchase and time of injury. Keep a diary to refresh your memory about dates, doctors, and the extent of your pain, suffering and type of medication. Keep all medicine bottles. Your memory will fade. That’s your way to refresh your memory about your evidence.

If you go to an emergency room or doctor, always be truthful about the facts and any prior injuries. Speak slowly so that the nurse and the doctor will have time to write down the exact facts in their office notes. Many cases are lost because the injured person failed to be accurate or talked too fast and that initial medical report omitted facts that will later become important. Failing to admit that you had a prior injury now might make you appear to be untruthful later. Also, prior injuries can become serious, aggravated injuries. That’s your evidence.

Worker’s Compensation: We represent employees who are injured on the job in claims to recover for disability, lost wages and medical treatment expenses. Did your employer pick your doctor? Why? Did you know that you have the right to pick your own doctor? Don’t give up that valuable right. Did you know that you can recover worker’s compensation benefits even when you are negligent? What else don’t you know? Telephone us.

Don’t let the “statute of limitations” run against you. This “statute” is a state or federal law that only gives you a short time to file your lawsuit. Miss filing your claim before that time runs out and you are out of court. You lose. Some are as short as one year but you have to start before then. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Call an experienced attorney today. If you think “one call, that’s all” is reall all then you are dreaming. It takes time and a lot of work to gather the facts and evidence and put a lawsuit or claim together for filing. Wasted time loses lawsuits.

Don’t try to represent yourself. You will have a fool for a client. Insurance adjusters are trained professionals. Don’t give a recorded or written statement to an insurance adjuster without the advice of an experienced attorney. Adjusters have years of experience. They do this every single day and you don’t. If you represent yourself, you have about the same chance that a zebra has against a hungry lion waiting by the waterhole. You need an experienced trial attorney to assist you. Otherwise, you lose. Telephone us.

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John C. Sullivan, Jr. and Sullivan and Sullivan
5448 I-55 North, Suite 200
Jackson, Mississippi 39211
Telephone: (601) 952-0799
Fax: (601) 952-0599