Motor Vehicle Injuries and Deaths on the Rise in Texas

According to the Texas Department of Transportation, 265,076 people were injured by motor vehicle crashes in 2016, with the number of injuries and deaths increasing by 5.45%. The average cost of a trip to the emergency room from an injury related to car crash can cost $20000 in operating costs and $13000 in critical care costs on average. However, this isn’t even including the cost of traveling to the hospital with an ambulance and/or evaluation costs. The average total cost of a car injury is in the range of $72000-$77000.

The solution to these high costs and growing amount of injuries from car crashes is getting a Texas personal injury attorney. Claims related to personal injury don’t just relate to the injury itself though. The settlement of these cases usually pays for not only medical bills, but future medical care costs related to the injury, pain and suffering related to the injury, damage to property, wages lost from missing work and predicted wage losses due to the injury. Unfortunately, without the help of an attorney, insurance companies will do their best to keep costs low and attempt to avoid paying the full sum that the victim loss. Therefore, getting an attorney for personal injury is incredibly important, as victims deserve to receive back any damages caused to them. It is also helpful to have an attorney help with the lengthy and difficult process of filling a claim.

Other factors that can be missed without an attorney present include punitive damages, partial responsibility and demonstrating damages. Punitive damages aren’t often pursued, but insurance companies will do anything and everything to avoid them as they can lead to more costs. Again, therefore it is best to have an attorney present when filing these claims, as an attorney can recognize when an individual or insurance company is being negligent in their payment or account of the accident. In some cases, partial responsibility will come into play, but insurance companies will try to claim it in any case to reduce the money that is owed to the victim. With a present attorney, false claims for partial responsibility can be shut down as soon as they appear and in cases where a victim was partially responsible, reduce the discount that a defendant can get from it. Lastly, there is demonstrating damages, which means providing all documentation relating to injury from the accident. An attorney can help victims determine which documents are relevant and help represent these damages in a case.

There is no reason not to seek out a personal injury attorney, as they can help victims get back what they have lost. Insurance companies are almost always looking out for themselves and will do anything to deflect responsibility and avoid payment. The procedure of filing claims is also insanely complicated for the average citizen. So, there is no reason to go at it alone, victims can and should use personal injury attorneys to get back everything that is rightfully theirs.