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Your personal injury lawyer can help you calculate your recoverable damages, which may include:

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Forked Island Bicycle Accident Lawyer

If you’ve experienced an accident while riding your bicycle in the Forked Island area, you can seek compensation to help cover the damages. You don’t need to stand by and let the bills overwhelm your life. You can also hire legal counsel to help you seek justice.

A Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer from Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers will assess your case, collect evidence, and help negotiate fair compensation for your injuries, pain, and suffering.

Steps To Take After a Bicycle Accident

After getting into a bicycle accident, you may feel anxious and worried about what happens next. You may wonder how you will move forward and pay for the damages. You also may be in a lot of pain from the accident. Take these steps to help facilitate a speedy resolution to the situation:

Seek Help

Reach out for help immediately after the accident. This could take many forms. It includes contacting the police there to make a report about the accident. You can let them know the details about what occurred in the report.

You need to also seek help at a medical facility, so you can be sure to treat all injuries promptly. If you do not seek treatment and your injuries worsen, an insurance adjuster could argue you contributed to your losses. They may try to undervalue or deny your claim. Don’t give them the chance to do this. Get medical attention immediately after an accident.

Take Notes

Write down notes about what happened during the accident, and also keep a ledger of all medical care you received. The more thorough your notes are, the better it can help a Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer seek damages.

Talk To Eyewitnesses

If anyone was around during the accident and can verify your version of what happened, then attempt to get their contact information.

Take Pictures

You can add to the information you collect for the case by taking relevant pictures. This could include pictures of the damage, your injuries, the way the car was positioned after the accident, and so on.

Consider Working With an Attorney

A Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer can calculate your approximate damages and work on a fair settlement on your behalf. This way, you can focus on your health. Our wrongful death attorney can also help if you lost a loved one in a bicycle accident.

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Types of Bicycle Accident Damages

You can have the attorney investigate all the potential damages you are eligible to claim. Some of these involve the expenses you have from the accident, while other damages account for pain and suffering.

The monetary damages are fairly easy to calculate because you can show the receipts for the bills you had to pay. Pain and suffering is a bit more difficult to figure out, though. You don’t have bills associated with the pain and mental anguish you go through after an accident. Yet, it’s still a loss of value in your life. Your Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer can assign a monetary value to these types of losses.

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Building a Case for Negligence in a Bicycle Accident

It’s vital to show how the other party was negligent because your award gets reduced proportionately to the amount of fault you have in the accident.

A Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer can help with every aspect of your case so you can focus on healing from your injuries. In particular, the lawyer will interview you to get your firsthand account of what occurred. Our lawyer will also help do the following:

Prove the Driver Had a Duty of Care

This one is a given when it comes to road accidents. It simply means that other drivers owe a duty of care to you. Everyone who decides to drive on the road is obligated by this duty.

Show Breach of Duty

The Forked Island bicycle accident lawyer will investigate the evidence and determine the negligence of the other party. This shows the driver breached the duty of care.

Show Causation

Our personal injury lawyer must show how the accident was a direct cause of the injuries. In other words, you can’t get a claim from pre-existing injuries. However, if you have an existing problem and the accident made it worse, the attorney can argue for a percentage of the damages for the injury.

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Work With a Forked Island Bicycle Accident Lawyer

Take time to recover from your injuries while you are recovering the damages you deserve. A Forked Island bicycle accident attorney can manage all the paperwork and negotiations for you. They can help negotiate a fair deal for you or take your case to court if needed.

At Laborde Earles Injury Lawyers, you can discuss your case during a free, no-obligation case assessment. In addition, we will get started on your case on a contingency basis. Call us today.

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