Tips to Maximize your compensation after an car accident injury

1. Must file traffic accident report
2. Hire an attorney
3. Go to the emergency room or doctor office as soon as possible after injury
4. Follow up with your doctor appointments
5. Make all your diagnostic appointments even if you feel better
6. Make sure the doctor knows any and all restrictions due to accident
7. See more than one doctor, get second opinion
8. Hire attorney that is a certified trial attorney
9. Only use attorney that specializes in PI case's
10. Make sure that attorney will handle your case not an associate
11. Ask your attorney when was the last time he went to court for a PI case
12. Is the attorney law license up to date and does he have malpractice insurance
13. Does your attorney have any bar complaints against them
14. Get any names of witness
15. Be sure the exact mechanism of injury is taken at your doctor's office including weather conditions, road conditions, wearing seat belt, position of your body on impact.
16. Be sure to have diagnostic test run especially those test which test your injured area range of motion, muscle strength test, reflexes, sensation, stationary x-rays and motion x-rays, MRI if needed.
17. Your doctor knows how to give an AMA impairment rating
18. Your doctor is willing to testify in court if needed
19. Reexaminations are performed to document healing or permanent injury
20. Second opinions from different types of doctors that specialize in PI cases: neurosurgeon, neurologist, GP in physical medicine, chiropractor, physical therapist
21. Any days off from work due to injury
22. Any restrictions from work due to injury
23. Do not miss your doctor's appointments even if you feel better
24. Be sure your attorney sign an attorney lien for each of your doctors to insure you get the proper medical reports needed for your case
25. Your PI attorney know how to apply the AMA impairment guides
26. Require your attorney to not settle the case until the doctor has released you from care
27. Ask your doctor for an impairment of the injury after the care is completed
28. All your doctors have the findings for all your diagnostic tests and each other's medical records
29. Be sure to have pre and post diagnostic test and compare the differences this helps to establish is you have a permanent injury
30. The best test to document your injury: MRI, motion x-rays, nerve conduction velocity test, digital muscle strength test, digital range of motion test
31. Maintain open communication with your doctors and attorney and ensure they are communication with each other
32. Hire an attorney that will sign an attorneys lien by all your doctors, they are needed for your doctors to get paid and their corporation
33. Hire an attorney that will take your case on contingency
34. Hire an attorney that charges the same percentage that the other attorneys in the area charge
35. Hire an attorney that has taken a PI case to court in the last year.
36. Hire an attorney that will not settle your case without your consent
37. Hire an attorney that has won a PI case in court