What Should You Do Immediately After a Serious Injury?

If you’ve been injured, you need to take immediate steps to protect yourself both physically and financially. Physically, getting medical help immediately and following through on all of the doctor’s orders is the best thing you can do. To protect your financial future, you need to search for Austin, TX, personal injury attorneys with experience in helping people in these situations. An attorney will be able to take over your personal injury case while you concentrate on healing.

Get Medical Help

If you look around online, you will find plenty of recommendations that you should gather evidence from the accident scene and talk to witnesses, and while this is sound advice in numerous instances, if you’ve been badly hurt, you should not delay getting the help you need to take some pictures. A lawyer can help you by doing an investigation; you just need to get to the hospital.Whatever medical advice you are given and whatever treatment is recommended, follow it to the letter. This means you should attend all follow-up appointments, take all medications prescribed to you, and do any kind of physical therapy that is recommended. If a doctor tells you to avoid certain activities for a time, be sure to avoid those activities until you are cleared.In a personal injury claim, you’ll need to be able to link your injuries to the accident. The faster you get medical help, the clearer that link between your injuries and the accident can be drawn. And if you follow up on all your medical care and follow doctor instructions carefully, then the other side and their insurance company cannot argue that you have been making your injuries worse by your own behavior.

Contact Experienced Personal Injury Attorneys

As soon as you are able, reach out to lawyers with experience in this area of law. Once you have a lawyer on your side, your lawyer can investigate the accident, take over all negotiations with insurance companies, and shoulder the legalities and paperwork so you can focus on healing. A good attorney doesn’t take a fee unless you win, so there’s no need to panic about finances.

Be Careful Who You Talk To

It’s likely that an insurance adjuster will contact you pretty early on after the accident. When an insurance adjuster calls, they are usually trying to get you to say something they can use to minimize their responsibility. It’s best to refer them to your lawyer. In some cases, you will need to talk to the insurance company, but you can do that with your lawyer present and after you’ve thoroughly prepared. And beware of what you post online while your claim is still unsettled. You never know what can get back to the insurance company, and you can expect them to be monitoring your social media accounts looking for anything they can use against you.For help with your personal injury claim, contact us today at Shaw Cowart, Attorney at Law LLP in Austin, TX. We also serve clients in Houston, San Antonio, Round Rock, across Texas, and even nationwide.

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