Silverthorne Attorneys handles personal injury and wrongful death cases in Orange County, California. We represent people not huge corporations.

When Do You Need To Hire A Personal Injury Lawyer? If you have been injured in an accident in Orange County that is not your fault, your best course of action is to consult a personal injury lawyer at the earliest opportunity. Depending on the severity of the injury, you could be able to claim compensation amounting to many thousands of dollars. Quite obviously, your first thought will be taking care of your health and recovering as quickly as possible, but equally, it is important to obtain ...

When Do You Need To Hire A Personal Injury Lawyer? If you have been injured in an accident in Orange County that is not your fault, your best course of action is to consult a personal injury lawyer at the earliest opportunity. Depending on the severity of the injury, you could be able to claim compensation amounting to many thousands of dollars. Quite obviously, your first thought will be taking care of your health and recovering as quickly as possible, but equally, it is important to obtain specialist advice as early as you can. Most personal injury lawyers will offer a free initial consultation and will be able to advise you on the likelihood of a successful claim. Many will visit you at home or in hospital, if you are unable to get to their office. If the injuries you suffered are as a result of a car accident, you will usually find that both your insurance company and the insurance company of the other party involved will start asking questions at a very early stage. The police may also want to ask questions. A personal injury lawyer, once appointed by you, will be able to deal with all of this for you. If you try to deal with it yourself, it is also possible that you might say something which will damage your chances of compensation. Using an attorney immediately removes all of the worry from your shoulders, and lets you concentrate on your recovery. Trying to negotiate with an insurance company on your own can be a nightmare. You need to remember that the insurance company involved is interested in only one thing, and that is reducing the amount that it might have to pay out to an absolute minimum, or even better, nothing at all. It has no interest whatsoever in any pain or loss that you may be suffering. Furthermore, the law relating to personal injury is an utter minefield, so you need someone with years of expertise who can handle everything on your behalf. This is a situation where DIY is not the best course of action. Another point to note is that you may consider your injury to be only slight. However, an injury that appears relatively minor to begin with can get worse over time, and may affect your ability to return to work. You are entitled to compensation for medical bills, loss of earnings, the cost of someone to look after you, and many more things that you might never consider, but are second nature to a good lawyer.