If you’ve been injured in an accident, you get to meet lots of new people: police, doctors and nurses, and rude insurance adjusters, if the accident wasn’t your fault. You may even meet a personal injury lawyer Toronto who just might become your new best friend.
No matter the cause, accidents aren’t a lot of fun. You’re angry. You’re in pain. You’re stressed out, especially if you can’t work due to your injuries and you are your family’s only support. You have to deal with the at-fault party’s insurance company where you may be assigned an adjuster who thinks you’re malingering.
Enter the personal injury lawyer. He is there to get you through this complex process called an insurance claim. As soon as you retain an attorney, you no longer have to deal with insurance adjusters. The attorney is now their point of contact, and you’ve just lost one source of stress.
Settling an insurance claim is a complicated process, involving a myriad of documents that result in a report called a demand package. Sure, you can put this package together by yourself or let the defendant’s insurance company do this, but is it in your best interests to do this? Probably not.
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