The insurance company told you your car is a total loss and gave you a number. Maybe the number surprised you, because it’s less than you expected and less than you feel like you’re owed. Maybe you don’t fully understand what total loss actually means legally or how they arrived at that figure. Maybe you’re […]
Can an Insurance Company Access Your Medical Records Without Your Permission and What Happens When You Sign What They Send You
An adjuster sent you something to sign, or asked you to sign something over the phone, and it had language in it about medical records, and you signed it because you were trying to cooperate and get your claim moving and nobody explained what you were actually authorizing. Or you did not sign it and […]
What It Means When an Insurance Company Denies Liability After a Car Accident and What You Are Supposed to Do Next
You filed a claim and the insurance company told you they are denying liability. Maybe they said it matter-of-factly, as if it were a routine administrative outcome rather than a decision that directly affects your ability to be compensated for an injury someone else caused you. Maybe they said their insured was not at fault, […]
Why Do My Hands Tingle After a Car Accident and Why That Symptom Deserves More Attention Than You Are Giving It
It started maybe a day or two after the accident, or it was there when you woke up the morning after, and you have been trying to figure out whether to mention it or whether it will just go away on its own. Tingling in the hands. Maybe numbness. Maybe a buzzing sensation or a […]
What a Compression Fracture From a Car Accident Actually Is and Why Its Seriousness Is So Consistently Underestimated
You’ve been told you have a compression fracture, or you’re trying to understand whether what happened to your spine in the accident could be one. Either way, you’re probably working with incomplete information, because compression fractures are one of the most consequential spinal injuries in car accidents and one of the most poorly explained to […]
Can You Sue for PTSD After a Car Accident and What It Takes to Make That Claim Stick
Something changed after the accident and it is not your neck or your back. It is the way you feel when you get behind the wheel now, if you can get behind the wheel at all. It is the image that surfaces when you are not expecting it, the sound of brakes, the specific light […]
