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What Is a Personal Injury Claim?

A claim is defined as “demand for something as rightful or due”,and a personal injury is defined as “physical or mental injury to the body of a person. This includes but is not limited to: physical illness (such as contracting a disease, or stress resulting in an illness); mental disorders; broken limbs and so on”. So the two put together becomes a claim that is being filed that states that you are demanding or are rightfully due a payment for something that has caused pysical,mental or emotional harm.

How Do I File A Personal Injury Claim?

There are many steps in filing a claim, some of them are as easy as filing out your name, address  and what happened and some are more complex, such as calculating out your total expenses and how much the claim should be. If you would like help in the process of filing a claim a  personal injury attorney or one of their paralegals will be able to assist in the process.

Step One in filing a Claim:get all of the information about what happened (Who,What,When,Where,How,Why), these are the most basic of things needed when filing a claim.(a special note for if it is a car accident claim,if it is the other parties fault and you contact their insurance. More than likely the claims adjuster will want to record the account of what happened in your own words. I would not recomend doing this as because after an accident your memory is jarred and is not able to fully rember important details of exactly what you saw. Many times insuarance companies will  put way to much emphasis on these vague  accounts and  try to get out or lessen the claim. Another bad thing about these recording is that you can often times not go back and add important infomation that you missed). You will want to try to get every detail that you can down to the miniscule and minute,dates,names and times and where abouts. Some helpful hints to getting more information are to call anyone who knows anything about your situation and can provide solid facts and statements about what happened,(be sure to get their full names,and try to get two contact numbers, and if they could a written statement),( if it was an accident involving a slip and fall or a premises liabilty claim if possible get pictures or have someone take pictures of the damage done to your self and where the incident happened,try to do this as soon as possible to preserve any evidence to help to validate the claim. After doing this you are going to want to begin calculating up your claim.

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