How To Prepare For Your Initial Personal Injury Consultation?
Video Transcript
Bring at least 5 key items: insurance correspondence, accident report/details, medical records, photos, and bills/wage loss proof. This lets your injury lawyer quickly assess liability, damages, and deadlines. This article outlines what to gather and how to prepare for your first meeting.
Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media
“So, somebody decides that they want to hire an attorney. They’re coming into your office for the first time. What should they have with them? How should they prepare for that first interview in your office?”
Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA
“What helps me the most is if they have, if they’ve had any contact with the other side’s insurance. Having that correspondence. Having the information relating to the identity of the other driver. Any of the insurance policy information from the other driver. The specific information about the incident itself, like the day of the incident, the location of the incident. If they have copies of the police reports, bring those in. If not, I can certainly get them rather easily. But any of the documentation that they’ve had. If they’ve been to the emergency room, they would have left with discharge papers, bring those in, that’s helpful. Then, all information regarding their medical treatment providers.”