How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim

I highly recommend this book!I sustained injuries in a car accident. I had no knowledge or experience dealing with insurance claims. I was concerned about dealing with the insurance adjuster, feeling like an amateur competing against a seasoned professional.I bought this book a few weeks after the accident. It was EXTREMELY helpful in understanding the "system" - general background, role of each player, process, typical timeline, examples, suggestions of "good ideas vs bad ideas," etc. This book pointed out a number of traps to avoid and saved me from just going along with what SEEMED like reasonable suggestions from the insurance adjuster. After 3 months, I hired an attorney, realizing from this book that I could not handle the situation on my own.My only regret is that I did not find this book the day after the accident. It would have saved me some sleepless nights.

I was really glad to get this book shortly after I was in an accident. It gave me a really good picture of a personal injury claim: what it is (and is not), what would be a fair amount to expect for my injuries, and how to communicate with the insurance company. Actually, I wish I'd had it to review BEFORE my first phone conversations with the insurance company, as it gives some good advice for those crucial first conversations.

WANT TO TEACH THE INSURANCE COMPANY TO TAKE YOUR CLAIM SERIOUSLY?As a personal injury claims adjuster for over fifteen years I can tell you that If you are serious about wanting to win your personal injury lawsuit this is the book to start with.However you can't just thumb through it casually. You need to read it regularly throughout the various stages of the lawsuit. It puts you on a level far above most beginners, amateur lawyers, and pro per litigants.Remember the lawsuit is a battle.This book shows you how to attack, and also how to defend against attacks from the opposition. Well worth the small price of the book.

This Nolo book, How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim, teaches you about the law and how to frame your case. We all know a little about the law, or what we think is the law. This book goes step by step to show you how to make your case. Each chapter helps you build your case by teaching the steps needed to present your case to a court of law. If that seems to big a deal for you to handle; the book will help you talk to a lawyer so you are not rambling; remember time is money. Think of talking to a lawyer is like sitting in a taxi cab, the meter is running! You can learn alot from Nolo Books, law for the average person.

Best! Wish I'd had it even earlier and I would have got the doctors to document things better, but zI was able to back track and get them to say things in a way to increase the value of my case even later.This book raised the value of my claim from $10000 to $180000 and spared me a lawyer.The insurance company respected my demands and timeframe and realized I was saving them attorney costs.I said in plain language everything an attorney would have said.I stayed one step ahead of them when I knew how they thought.The insurance company will respect your words if they were documented by a doctor, more than if they come directly from your mouth.If you still can't do it yourself, or if you have no access to proactive efficient doctors who can write legal reports and take a lien on your case instead of demanding money up front, then get an attorney the first day. Submitting your information to Nolo will bring you immediate top attorney responses. Remember to use the NOLO website in addition to this book.This book is invaluable. Better than others I read on the subject, and it contains information I could not find for free online.If you don't believe me, or don't want to spend the $20, then use the Amazon feature of browsing the inside of the book. You will get 60% of the ideas for free.

I first borrowed this book from my local library and accrued close to three weeks of late fees because I did not want to return it. I figured if this book was that good I might as well add it to my own library. There are lots of helpful tips, like sample letters and how to make demands to claims adjusters who can be very aggressive especially if you are new to this arena. My only regret is that I didn't read this earlier.Great book, highly recommend.

One teensy, tiny little drawback. I guess this might work IF a property owner wants to disclose his/her insurance company (which appears to be vital for the whole process to work). Otherwise, they just ignore you and you end up having to file a lawsuit anyway. The author fails to offer a solution for this. Good luck trying to find out the name of the insurance company or getting in touch with a Claims Adjuster for the property owner. For a personal injury claim involving commercial property, you might want to save your money and put it toward an attorney.

I've finished the book and there is a lot of great information. I haven't sent my demand letter yet so I can't comment on the end result just yet. The only down side is it keeps mentioning broad areas when you may want to hire a lawyer, I wish it would be more specific but I do understand there are too many variables to spell them all out.