Maison Law helps you after a careless driver, weaving between lanes, leaves you the victim of accidents caused by careless drivers leaving their lanes. Our lawyers make sure that reckless drivers accept responsibility for your medical bills, lost income, and the pain that’s left behind.
If you have been injured, please contact a Livermore Car Accident Lawyer for a free case review. It’s an informative, no-string-attached way to find out what your injury may be worth and how to hold a car insurance company fully responsible.
When You Should Have a Lawyer
If your accident involves a serious injury that won’t heal in a day or two, and a careless driver was at fault, a lawyer becomes a valuable ally in your case. This is because the longer you are at home healing and unable to work, the more an injury settlement will need to cover. The higher costs will make insurance companies fight even more to avoid blame.
A Maison Law attorney who is also a skilled investigator can help you fight back. Your lawyer takes action when insurers twist the evidence to make it look like you left your lane to cause an accident. Your lawyer can stand up for you when adjusters attempt to downplay how badly you’re hurt, just to get away with offering you less.
A Maison Law Attorney would often provide a critical boost to your recovery support when you were dealing with these and other serious injuries:
- An accident involving a bone fracture, such as a broken arm or leg
- An accident involving a Traumatic Brain Injury, including a serious concussion
- An accident involving a neck injury, including a serious case of whiplash
- An accident involving a back injury with pain that doesn’t go away after a few days
- An accident resulting in a hip or knee injury
- A lane drifting accident resulting in a permanent physical disability
- An accident involving an injury to your child or another family member
You can always file an injury claim on your own. However, when taking on giant car insurance companies, an experienced lawyer with great negotiation skills is often able to earn you much more than you could earn yourself.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Real Lawyer
Don’t talk to the insurance company representing the at-fault driver until you’ve spoken to a lawyer. The insurers will be trying to get you to give them a recorded statement about what happened. They hope you’ll say something they can twist to hurt your case. They may also send you a quick settlement, hoping you’ll accept a “lowball” offer before you know exactly what you’ll require to recover.
First, you should know about every benefit that’s available to you and what your injuries are worth. The easiest way to do that is to take advantage of a free informational session with Maison Law. Schedule a free, no-obligation case review with us. There’s no risk, and it’s a great way to get empowered to take on unhelpful (and sometimes underhanded) insurance adjusters.
Knowing What You Can Ask for in Accident Compensation
Your Maison Law attorney will first determine what you’ll need to fully recover physically, emotionally, and financially. An attorney will go over every medical receipt you have and get expert estimates on the care you could need in the months ahead.
The time you lose at work, and those important paychecks that have stopped coming in, must be totaled. In some cases, support for the long-term must be negotiated when a new disability will keep you from returning to your old profession. If you can continue to work in another field, you can ask for funds to pay for training and courses to find a new career.
Your attorney would demand support for these damages, and for things you may not have known could increase the size of a settlement check:
- Hospital and physical therapy expenses.
- Estimated costs associated with a long-term injury or permanent physical disability.
- Support for emotional trauma, such as depression and anxiety, during a difficult injury rehab. It’s normal to experience a loss of enjoyment of life while you can’t participate in family activities.
- Support for PTSD symptoms repeatedly bringing victims back to the moment of impact in a lane accident.
- The hardship of dealing with chronic, physical pain.
- Past and future lost paychecks while a victim’s injury won’t allow them to work.
- Funds to pay for transport to medical appointments and to see out-of-town specialists.
- Money for vehicle repairs or replacement.
- Wrongful death benefits. A family that has lost a loved one to a tragic lane mistake by another driver may file a wrongful death claim against the car insurance company involved. This claim seeks help with funeral costs and leftover medical expenses. It also seeks to replace the income the deceased would have provided the family in the future. Families should also receive support for the love and support the deceased can no longer provide.
Spotting Lane Drifting Hazards in Livermore
Lane drifting is usually defined as a driver’s veering from their lane unintentionally. This “drifting” can be very dangerous on busy roads like I-580, especially when big rigs or speeding cars are involved.
A driver looking at a cell phone on Route 84 can suddenly slam into the vehicle in the next lane. A drowsy motorist on College Avenue might suddenly swing across double yellow lines to cause a devastating head-on collision, sending victims to Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley with life-threatening injuries.
Drivers can also be merging onto the interstate and end up steering into a crowded lane before they intend to.
Lane departure warning is now equipped on many cars and has reduced some careless lane drifting incidents.
But the National Safety Council (NSC) reports that lane guidance may not work in areas of Livermore where road markings have faded or worn completely away. Fog can also render lane assistance useless. Plus, not everyone has the feature on their cars.
After an accident, the other driver’s lane mistake may be obvious to you, but it might be harder to convince an unhelpful insurance company as to what really happened. A skilled attorney assists you in collecting the evidence needed to keep the blame on the right driver and earn you full support. Maison Law also works with accident reconstruction teams when necessary to secure air-tight evidence.
Contact a Livermore Lane Drifting Car Accident Attorney
If you’ve suffered a serious injury, and a careless driver was at fault, it’s a good sign that you could earn more with a lawyer’s help. We offer a free consultation to all injured Alameda County accident victims and their families. It’s a good chance to go over the best options for getting complete support as soon as possible.
