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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

You expected to feel better by now. Someone told you concussions typically resolve in a week or two, or you read that online, and here you are past that window still dealing with headaches, or fog, or fatigue that doesn’t match how you’re otherwise recovering, or sleep that isn’t right, or a low-grade feeling of […]

If someone has used this phrase to describe what happened to your spine, or you have seen it on an imaging report or a physician’s notes and you are trying to understand what it means, you are probably already aware that this is a serious diagnosis. What you may not yet have is a clear […]

Your shoulder has not been right since the accident. Maybe it hurt from the beginning and you assumed it was muscular. Maybe it felt tolerable at first and has progressively gotten worse. Maybe you’ve been told it’s a strain or a contusion and given anti-inflammatories, but the pain is still there weeks later, and certain […]

Your doctor used that phrase, grade 2, and you wrote it down or you remembered it and now you are here trying to understand what it actually means. Because a grade implies a scale, and a scale implies that some whiplash is more serious than other whiplash, and you are trying to figure out where […]