How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph Matthews
Publisher: NOLO
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 89388
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 289
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1413305199
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.730323
EAN: 9781413305197
ASIN: 1413305199
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
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Product Description
The book that helps you overcome the insurance companies' Goliath
Dealing with insurance companies and lawyers when filing a personal injury claim can feel like another accident is in the offing. But you can handle a claim yourself -- and save hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process.
How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim shows you how to handle almost every accident situation, and guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. Learn how to:
-protect your rights after an accident
-determine what your claim is worth
-handle a property-damage claim
-deal with uncooperative doctors, lawyers and insurance companies
-counter the special tactics insurance companies use
-prepare a claim for compensation
-negotiate a full and fair settlement
-stay on top of your case if you hire a lawyer
This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim provides your state's most recent laws, small-claims court limits and Department of Insurance information.
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 The Do-It-Yourself Guidebook for September 6, 2008
This is the second NOLO book I've bought ("patent it yourself" was the first), and I'm equally impressed at its organization and vital usefulness. This guidebook is as essential for navigating a damages or personal injury claim as a travel guide is for navigating a new city. It specifically lists steps that you need to take, forms that you need to fill out (including their URLs when possible), letters that you need to write, and walks you through the whole process. It also informs you what types of shenanigans insurance companies can and cannot get away with.
90% of my legal questions were answered in this book, so that when I finally met with a legal ad adviser face to face, I was well prepared and only needed to ask a few more nuanced questions.
My car was totaled and without collision coverage, I was forced to deal with the other guy's insurance company directly (Liberty Mutual, ranked one of the lowest in consumer reports because of their aggressive tactics when filing a claim). Liberty Mutual denied liability without giving any written justification even though their guy hit me while taking a left turn. This book has prepared me for the fight though. I plan to represent myself in small claims court.
This book is also more useful and broadly applicable than just personal injuries. In my auto accident, I was not injured and was not even considering faking, so most attorneys wouldn't take my case. But I just ignored the chapters on personal injury and focused on the sections discussing liability and property damages.
 Not what I needed July 20, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is very vague especially relating to car accidents. I had much better luck with Car Accident Secrets. It contained more information and was very easy, had step by step instructions to follow. I would recommend purchasing Car Accident Secrets if you have been involved in a car accident.
This is the book to buy! June 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would recommend you buy this book which is published by Nolo Press, which is probably the most prominent self-help legal publisher. It is a very good overview and covers alot. If you had to buy one book only, this is it.
I had also bought "Car Accident Secrets" which is written by an insurance "insider". I don't really recommend it. It only provided general/basic info. which is covered by Joseph Matthew's book. Good luck.
$100,000 Policy Boating Accident June 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had a boating accident (I was a passenger) in 2001. I heard terrible stories from people who had hired lawyers and ended up with nothing. I bought this book and after 2 years of medical procedures & appointments, when I was done, I composed a letter requesting $85,000 from the insurance company (who had already been paying all my medical bills), State Farm. The policy was for $100,000 and the boat owner had only made one month's payment. I figured I would negotiate down to $65,000 minimum. I reasoned that if I ended up having to get a lawyer, I would ask for the $100,000 and end up with $66,000 (lawyer would get 30 percent). With my letter, documentation and before, during and after pictures, State Farm ended up awarding me $90,000. $5,000 more than I had requested. I highly recommend this book, but you must be thorough and patient. It's a lot of "legwork". A lot of research and stuff, but who knows your "pain and suffering" better than you. Certainly not a lawyer!!! The money is gone, but I used it to keep my paralyzed 83 year old mom at home with a caregiver until she passed away!
Helpful, well organized information November 12, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought it was very helpful, but I ended up getting a lawyer anyway. Based on how stressed and ill I felt after the accident, I chose to use an attorney for my own peace of mind. The book helped me make a chronological report of events the day of the accident, and all the pain issues and stress that followed. The notes, reports, and calendar I kept have been invaluable to my attorney. The other insurance company fought with me over car rental. Using the guidelines in the book, I was able to create a letter that convinced them to pay the $1000 in car rental costs. I decided to use a lawyer for all the pain and suffering issues.
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