Getting injured in an accident throws about fifteen different problems in your face at once. You’re in pain, making medical appointments, getting calls from insurance, bills piling up, possibly missing work and everyone wants something from you—now. It’s a lot.

What most people don’t expect in such a situation is that the legal and insurance aspect is just as exhausting—if not more, to be honest—as the physical injuries. At least with the injuries, the doctor tells you what you should do next. Everything else? No one really tells you how to navigate it while you’re trying to recover.

But that’s why someone who actually knows what they’re doing makes all the difference.

Someone Finally Takes Care of the Insurance Company

Almost immediately after your accident, the insurance calls start. They want a statement. They want you to sign something. They’re very friendly at first, asking how you are, they’re just trying to help you get through this and get it settled quickly.

But the reality is, you have no idea what you’re supposed to say. You don’t know what’s okay to sign and what’s basically waiving your right to a fair settlement. You want to be honest and cooperative, but you’re in excruciating pain, drugged up from your injuries, and barely coherent.

When you have a lawyer, all that stops. The insurance company now has to go through your attorney. No longer will you need to receive phone calls while you’re in physical therapy trying to exert all of your energy into helping them help you. No longer will you try to make sense of if what they’re asking for is fair or if they’re trying to screw you over. Your attorney becomes the middleman for all of that. All of a sudden, you can focus on getting better without the added stress of feeling like you need a legal degree on top of everything else just to get through this!

A Beaumont Personal Injury Attorney takes care of all that back and forth that most people find frustrating—the phone calls, the paperwork, the requests for each little detail that makes you feel like you’re up against a system and need legal training just to be treated fairly.

They Know What Your Case is Actually Worth

Most people have no idea what they should be getting in an accident settlement. Sure, you know your medical expenses are $47,000, that’s a given—but what about the bills you’ve yet to receive? What about the physical therapy you’ll need for another six months? What about the fact that you’ll never be able to lift your arm above your shoulder again and your position requires you to reach for customers?

Insurance companies love when injured victims have no clue about these things. They’ll suggest $20,000 to “settle” and cover your current bills but wow, aren’t they being generous? They’re hoping that injured victims don’t realize that they’re looking at at least another year of treatment with permanent implications that decrease one’s ability to earn income.

A good lawyer looks at the bigger picture. They use medical professionals to explain what recovery will really look like for you and then factors in the costs for not just now, but down the road. They also factor in income stability loss and pain and suffering that you’ll have to wrestle with long after any case may settle.

This isn’t about being greedy. It’s about achieving fairness for what you now have to endure for circumstances out of your control.

The Paperwork Nightmare Becomes Someone Else’s Problem

There is so much paperwork associated with injury cases it’s almost laughable. Medical records from various providers, police reports, insurance policies, statements from witnesses, employment history showing lost wages, bills—bills—and more bills after that.

Having to get all this while you’re recovering becomes a full-time job of its own. You’re on the phone with doctor’s offices requesting records. You’re on hold with the police department attempting to get a collision report. And yu’re looking for your employer’s attention so they can note you’re absence with missed hours—and each request requires multiple phone calls and follow ups before anything gets done.

Your attorney has teams who do this on a daily basis. They know exactly what they need, who to speak with and how to get it done efficiently. What would take you weeks of frustration getting done gets taken care of in mere days by people who know the systems better than anyone outside them ever could.

Someone Explains What’s Happening in Words You Understand

Legal jargon is its own language and most of it sounds almost like it’s been created to confuse average people. Liability, comparative negligence, subrogation, statute of limitations, demand letters, discovery…you should not have to learn a whole new vocabulary just because you’ve been hurt through no fault of your own; but without help, you’re constantly Googling legal terms and trying to figure out what the forms mean and if what’s happening is atypical or common.

A good lawyer translates all that for you. They explain what’s going on at each point in time without dumbing it down but instead making it comprehensible for someone who was never trained in that field anyway. They tell you what’s going on, what will happen next and when various actions are normal or if they’re actually problematic and need attention right away.

This makes more of a difference than one would think; just having clarity on what’s going on as well as how long something may take causes a lot less stress off the bat.

They Deal With the Medical Provider Drama

Here’s something that surprises many people—once your case settles, your medical providers still want their money. If your health insurance paid any bills, they may want reimbursement from your settlement; maybe your medical providers will have a lien on it; maybe your hospital will too—but your lawyer has to negotiate so you KEEP more of your settlement than you’d like to believe.

But most people don’t even realize this is a thing until it’s too late and becomes an issue—but since it’s part of the process that an attorney handles anyway, they know which liens are justified, which can be negotiated and how you’re not paying back anything extra that you’re not supposed to pay back.

You Get Time to Actually Heal

Perhaps the best thing about having a lawyer is that it gives you permission not to focus on all the secondary matters but instead on what’s important—YOUR RECOVERY. All the legal drama can now be handled by someone else while you’re going to medical appointments, going to physical therapy and resting when your body needs it without fighting three hours worth of insurance nuances a day.

The stress of trying to handle everything yourself while simultaneously injured delays recovery; your body needs energy focus on healing—not on fighting an uphill battle with insurance companies and determining which route is right for your case according to legal statutes. This prevents matters from getting better at their fastest rate.

A lawyer can’t make your injuries go away or speed up recovery (broken bones take four months to heal regardless)—but they can take away all the secondary nightmare dealing with the legal claims while you’re simply trying to recover.

The Bottom Line

Getting injured is chaos—medical chaos, financial chaos, legal chaos, insurance chaos—all at once while you’re struggling in pain trying to recover!

A good injury lawyer doesn’t make the injury itself any less serious but they make everything else serious surrounding it manageable—from dealing with insurance companies processing claims collecting documentation required for appealing (and necessary) compensation negotiations—including medical providers—and explaining what’s going on and when in language that works for you rather than baffling you with jargon you’ve never heard before.

And this does not make an injury any less critical or less strenuous; it simply makes surviving through it more plausible without feeling completely overwhelmed for things unrelated directly to getting injured—like insurance systems!

Jane