After being injured in a car accident, you can end up losing paychecks and falling behind on monthly bills. But an accident claim can ask an auto insurer for compensation to pay bills like the rent or mortgage payments.
Maison Law of California represents the victims of car accidents and protects them financially. Our California car accident lawyers offer a free consultation to victims seriously hurt in collisions. Contact us for this confidential, no-obligation opportunity to speak with a real lawyer. It’s a no-risk way to find out the fastest path to getting the support you need to pay your rent and other monthly bills without stress.
Overdue Bills After a California Traffic Accident
A frightening car accident can leave you in a cast, in a wheelchair, or even with a permanent disability. Your injury could prevent you from performing the most important duties your job requires. You could have to miss weeks or months of job hours while you attempt to heal and get back to the things you used to do.
If a careless or reckless California motorist is to blame for your accident, California law allows you to seek help with your recovery costs. Many people think they can only ask for help with their hospital bills, but victims can ask for help with every hardship they face.
Without the ability to work, victims often have to forfeit their weekly paychecks. This leaves them unable to even make a first payment on medical bills, and it also often leaves cost-of-living expenses unpaid. Things like rent, car payments, and basic utility bills are quickly past due, leaving victims desperate for help.
These are problems that Maison Law’s California Car Accident Lawyers are skilled in handling for clients. After an injury, victims should be focused on healing and not on late bills and rising healthcare debt. Your lawyer fights to make sure you have help with your financial struggles stemming from a car accident you didn’t cause.
How Can a California Personal Injury Lawyer Help You with Late Rent
The car insurance company representing an at-fault driver should act quickly to help the victims of their policyholder’s mistake. Unfortunately, auto insurers can drag their feet, sometimes delaying benefits on purpose.
They can keep you waiting hoping your mounting bills and annoying calls from bill collectors and your landlord make you desperate enough to accept any offer they make you. They could also keep you waiting while they try to find ways to unfairly blame you for a collision or as they attempt to show that your injuries aren’t all that serious.
Your lawyer fights back against these tactics and more. Your California car accident lawyer investigates your case and gathers strong evidence to force an insurance company to do the right thing and provide assistance with your physical and financial hardships:
- Your lawyer can work with your doctors, hospital administrators, and health insurance provider and asks them to put off medical bills until you can secure insurance support. This helps you direct the money you do have toward paying your essential monthly bills.
- Your lawyer helps you explore other support options until you receive a car insurance settlement check. You may be able to take advantage of disability coverage offered through your employer. You may be able to file an accident claim with your own car insurance company.
- Your lawyer can help you communicate with your landlord or a rental property management company to explain your situation. Your lawyer can also identify if a landlord’s eviction notice violates state or federal housing laws.
- Your lawyer can advise you if applying for a loan is a helpful option to protect your family until a car accident settlement can be worked out. Your lawyer can also guide you to a reputable loan option.
- Your lawyer keeps a close watch on car insurance companies and fights back when adjusters are purposely delaying the car accident claims process. A skilled attorney demands fair treatment and also represents the real threat of a lawsuit if a car insurance company violates state law in its treatment of victims.
- Your lawyer negotiates for more in support if you fall behind on things like your rent payments, mortgage, car payments, utility bills, and credit card payments. Late payment penalties and lost benefits should be reimbursed by car insurance companies. Credit scores should also be protected, even when a victim must fall behind on payments due to a loss of income while injured.
Compensation Available for California Car Accident Victims
Along with all of your financial concerns like hospital invoices and overdue bills, your Maison Law car accident attorney works to maximize your settlement awards from non-economic damages too.
This additional support helps you pay off all of your bills left over from a bad accident. It also allows you a cushion to get your back rent paid up and helps you avoid falling behind again as you recover from the damaging effects of another driver’s mistake.
These and other non-economic damages can all add to the amount on a settlement check:
- Support for the physical pain you’ve suffered and the pain you could suffer in the future.
- Support for emotional trauma. This can include anxiety and depression stemming from the day of the accident and difficult recovery.
- Support for PTSD symptoms you develop after a traumatic and violent car crash.
- A loss of enjoyment of life. You may not be able to take part in the hobbies you once did due to injury. You may lose out on participation in family activities.
- Loss of consortium. The loss of intimacy with a partner or spouse.
- Wrongful death benefits. When a family loses a loved one in an accident, close relatives can file a wrongful death lawsuit. This lawsuit asks for help with funeral costs and remaining medical bills. This civil claim also seeks to protect the family in the future when they’ll be without the financial support the victim would have provided. This important support could help support a grief-stricken family to meet their monthly rent or mortgage payment helping them remain in a family home.
Contact a California Car Accident Lawyer
If you are hurt in a car accident and are struggling to pay your rent and other monthly bills, discuss your case with an experienced California car accident lawyer. Your lawyer can go over several available options to protect yourself financially as you wait on a car insurance company to provide fair support.
Allow Martin Gasparian, the founder of Maison Law, to go to work on your case to secure the most compensation possible for your recovery while cutting down your wait time as much as possible. Contact us today for a free case evaluation.
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.
