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After your injury: Settle your claim the right way

When you’ve been hurt in an accident, the prospect of dealing with insurance companies and lawyers can feel daunting. But armed with the right strategy, you can handle a claim yourself—and save thousands of dollars in the process.

How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. After almost any kind of accident, you’ll learn how to:

figure out what your claim is worth
gather the right medical records and accident reports
prepare an effective demand letter
counter insurance company delay and other common tactics
negotiate your way to a full and fair settlement, and
stay on top of your case if you hire a lawyer.

This completely updated edition How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim includes the latest state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413328998
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	10/08/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Joseph Matthews has been an attorney since 1971, and from 1975 to 1977 taught at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. He has for many years been involved in matters relating to seniors, and is the author of Social Security, Medicare&Government Pensions and Long Term Care: How to Plan&Play for It, as well as How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim.

Introduction Your Personal Injury Companion 1. Handling Your Personal Injury Claim 2. Whose Fault Is It? How Legal Responsibility Is Determined 3. Initial Steps in Settling Your Claim 4. Understanding Insurance Coverage 5. How Much Is Your Claim for Injuries Worth? 6. Processing Your Claim 7. Property Damage Claims 8. Negotiating a Settlement 9. Finalizing Your Settlement 10. The Last Resorts: Lawyers, Arbitration, and Courts 11. Working With a Lawyer Appendix Index

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This book can help you handle your own personal injury claim without slipping on a legal banana peel. It reveals step-by-step how lawyers and insurance firms process personal injury claims, and the secret formulas used to pocket a hefty share of your settlement.
— San Francisco Examiner

Seth Rosenfeld

An essential purchase.

Library Journal

Finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims....consumers can confidently handle claims against insurance companies and save the cost of legal fees. And he also explains when a lawyers advice can be crucial to your case.
— Legal View Columinist Los Angeles Times

Jeffrey Klein

"finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims."

Los Angeles Times

"Matthews, an attorney and author, offers a guide to winning a personal injury claim for automobile, cycle, or pedestrian accidents; slip or trip and fall accidents; home accidents; and others. It covers handling a personal injury claim oneself and when to hire a lawyer, how legal responsibility is determined, initial steps in settling a claim, understanding insurance coverage, how insurance adjusters decide how much a claim for injuries is worth, processing the claim, property damage claims, negotiating a settlement, finalizing it, and working with a lawyer, arbitration, and taking a case to court. This edition has been updated to include recent state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView
“Reveals step-by-step how lawyers and insurance firms process personal injury claims, and the secret formulas used to pocket a hefty share of your settlement.” San Francisco Examiner
“Finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims…consumers can confidently handle claims against insurance companies and save the cost of legal fees.” Los Angeles Times
"This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim includes the latest state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits. Readers don't need any special training to handle most injury claims just patience, perseverance, and some basic information about how the insurance claims process works. According to Matthews, it usually doesn't matter whether they were partly at fault for an accident as long as the accident was not mostly their fault. They can use this book if they have been injured or their vehicle or other property has been damaged in any sort of accident that occurred when they weren't at work. Even if they were injured on the job, if someone other than their employer or a coworker might be partly to blame, they can use this book to seek compensation. The book explains what to do if the insurance company refuses to negotiate fairly. Readers learn to handle nearly any type of accident situation, and to navigate most of the tricky parts of the insurance claims process. The book walks them through all the different parts of the process, with samples and examples of everything they might need to do. If the claim is too complicated for them to handle, they learn that from How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim, too. And the book explains how to work with an attorney if it comes to that." SirReadaLot.org

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Explains insurance coverage, the compensation formula, the demand letter, settlement negotiation, and the formal settlement document.

Reference & Research Book News

"Explains insurance coverage, the compensation formula, the demand letter, settlement negotiation, and the formal settlement document."

Reference & Reseach Book News

Finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims.... consumers can confidently handle claims against insurance companies and save the cost of legal fees.

Los Angeles Times

Can help you handle your own personal injury claim without slipping on a legal banana peel.

San Francisco Examiner

How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim

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