Video – How Do I Know When I Should Or Should Not Hire A Personal Injury Attorney?

Andrew Dósa – Personal Injury Attorney – Alameda County, CA

“There have been occasions where someone has come to me, and they are sore. A Lady came in yesterday and her shoulder was bothering her. It was impinging on her movement. She felt like she couldn’t have…she couldn’t do things. In fact, it was limiting her work, even as a barista. There was pain in her shoulder blade, between her shoulder blades, and along her neck and radiating down her arm. Now it maybe that she sees a chiropractor and only visits two or three times. At the outset, I may not know.

So she came to me, she signed a retainer agreement, gave me authority to get her medical records, and then I will go and obtain those and review them. If it turns out the case is pretty insignificant and she can handle it on her own, then I might hand it back to her and say ‘it doesn’t make sense for me, but consider doing these things and take care of your own claim’. If it was much more significant and she needed my help, then I would know that after doing a little bit of investigation.

So that may be where we figure out where the line was passed. If the injury was not significant, so it doesn’t pass the line into where you should get an attorney and represent you, and we don’t know that for a while, time is our friend in this situation. Two or three months later we’ll know, and that would help us determine what we would want to do and how we could help somebody.”