Suffering an injury in an accident can leave you unable to work and unable to pay monthly bills, like your power bill. You may demand help to pay for hospital care and pay your monthly expenses from an at-fault driver’s car insurer.
Car insurance companies won’t always make it easy for victims to earn support. They can also purposely delay providing compensation, leaving victims to face overdue bills like rent, car payments, and utility bills. Maison Law represents injured car accident victims and helps them secure the recovery support they need from at-fault drivers. Contact a skilled California Car Accident Lawyer and schedule a free, no-obligation case consultation. It’s a no-risk way to find out how to earn the most compensation available as soon as possible so you don’t fall behind on bills.
Paying Bills After a California Car Accident
A traffic accident on a California freeway or boulevard might leave you injured and facing hospital bills you can’t afford to pay. But you might also miss time at work after suffering a broken bone or head trauma. This lost income could cause you to fall behind on important bills like mortgage payments, credit card invoices, and your electric bill.
A car insurance company isn’t worried about your financial situation. They can delay payment or question fault in a clear-cut accident, simply to try to avoid having to take the blame for what happened. This unfair behavior might leave you unable to keep up with your medical bills and your normal monthly bills. You could be accumulating late fees, taking on credit score damage, and losing basic necessities like electricity and water.
A skilled California car accident lawyer understands that while you are in recovery, you still have your normal bills to keep up with and a family to support. Maison Law fights to make sure insurance companies aren’t keeping you waiting and trapping you in a deeper and deeper financial hole.
Car Insurance Tactics that Keep You Waiting on Support
Insurance companies can keep you waiting on support for many reasons. But most often, they delay when you’ve suffered a serious injury. It means that hospital bills will be higher and you’ll probably need support for longer. This makes insurers nervous. Car insurance providers want to avoid having to write big settlement checks, so they make you wait while their adjusters look for ways to blame you for an accident or ways to downplay how serious your injuries are.
They may also purposely delay your claim simply to allow you to become desperate and stressed about the electric bills showing up in your mailbox. Once you are desperate, they hope you are willing to accept any “lowball” offer they make you. These offers don’t cover all of your recovery bills and leave your family having to scramble to find the money to keep up with hospital bills and cost-of-living expenses.
Your Maison Law attorney will be monitoring these offers with you and will help you identify when you should be expecting more. Your lawyer will reject any claim that’s not sufficient and demand the maximum compensation available. Your lawyer also protects you if an insurance adjuster wants to shift blame in an accident to you, despite what a California Highway Patrol accident report says.
How Can a California Car Accident Lawyer Help Me Earn Support to Pay My Electric Bills?
Your lawyer will be working to force a car insurance company to accept responsibility for all of your hospital bills and the other utility bills and other financial responsibilities you may have.
We all know that power companies aren’t always very understanding when you are late on an electric bill, no matter the circumstances. A skilled California Car Accident Lawyer helps you get the money you need to pay your bills and catch up on your power bill:
- Investigating your case. Your lawyer fully investigates what happened to you. Evidence will be collected so that there’s no doubt about who caused the accident and who should be held liable. This leaves car insurance companies with fewer options to try to wiggle out of financial responsibility for your accident.
- Speeding up insurance companies. Your Maison Law representative also has the experience to recognize when a car insurance adjuster is purposely delaying responding to your claim. There are California laws that require insurance companies to work through claims in a certain amount of time. Your lawyer fights back when insurance companies are delaying payment and represents the threat of a lawsuit if they don’t treat you fairly.
- Negotiating with your creditors. Your lawyer can work with medical care providers and ask that they wait to bill you until you receive settlement money from an insurer. This can free up your finances in order to be able to pay your other monthly bills, like an electric bill. Your Maison Law lawyer can also help you contact your bank, or the power company, to alert them that you have been put in an extreme situation. Lenders and utility companies are sometimes willing to work with you until you are back on your feet physically and financially. This can help you avoid having your power turned off.
Contact a California Car Accident Lawyer
If you are hurt in a car accident and are struggling to pay hospital bills and your monthly utility bills, discuss your case with an experienced California car accident lawyer. Your Maison Law representative can go over several available options to protect your family financially as you wait on a car insurance company to provide fair support. Contact us as soon as possible for a free case evaluation that comes with no obligation to you.
If you decide we can help your financial recovery by earning you more in a settlement, you won’t need any money to hire us. We don’t get paid unless we win your case for you and your family. Then our fee is paid out of the settlement money an insurance company provides you.
