Every lawyer will tell you that they will fight for your rights when you have been injured in a motorcycle accident. Nevertheless, you may be wondering both what your legal rights are and how a motorcycle accident lawyer will accomplish this. To be clear, your legal right is to get full financial compensation for your injuries when the accident was caused by someone else’s negligence. How you get there often requires quite a bit of effort, which the motorcycle accident lawyer will expend on your behalf. Their mission is to obtain full compensation for you through the legal process.
A Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Keeps the Insurance Company From Pressuring You
The first step in fighting for your rights is ensuring that they are protected. The insurance company may try various methods to compromise your legal rights, and they will have a much greater chance of success if you delay hiring a lawyer. For example, they may try to get you on record with a statement that undermines your case or pressures you into accepting a low settlement. Hiring a motorcycle accident lawyer as soon as possible after the crash is the one thing that you can do to keep these things from happening.
Your Lawyer Looks Out for Your Own Financial Interests
After your motorcycle accident lawyer has had a chance to perform their own investigation of the crash and gather any available evidence, they will assert your legal rights either in a claim directly filed with the insurance company or a lawsuit filed in court. The insurance company’s role in the case is to represent its own policyholder. In doing so, the insurance company wants to minimize its own financial obligation that they may have to you because of the actions of their driver. Their overriding motivation is to pay you as little as possible for your claim.
Your motorcycle accident lawyer fights for your legal rights through the pressure that they will place on the insurance company throughout the process. The insurance company may deny your claim, or they may make you a very low settlement offer. Alternatively, they may try to blame you for the accident to either extinguish or lower their own financial obligation. Not allowing this to happen is one way that your motorcycle accident lawyer fights for your legal rights.
Your lawyer can also present evidence in your favor that disproves any allegations made against you, or they could give you advice to reject a settlement offer that does not fully compensate you. Remember that you always maintain the legal right to full compensation until the point where you sign a settlement agreement on the dotted line, or a jury decides your case.
Your Lawyer Can Use the Prospect of Litigation to Your Advantage
Perhaps the most important tool that your lawyer has to fight for your rights is the ability to threaten or file an actual lawsuit in court. The insurance company fears litigation for several reasons:
- First, unlike your lawyer, who works on a contingency basis, the insurance company must pay its own lawyer to defend against your case, regardless of the outcome. They often do not want to incur this expense. As a result, they may not want to provoke you to file a lawsuit against them.
- Second, insurance companies like to maintain as much control over the legal process as they possibly can. If you file a lawsuit in court, the insurance company cedes any control that it has to a jury. It would be a jury that decides whether you are eligible for financial compensation and how much you get. Juries have been known to hand down results that insurance companies do not like because it costs them even more money.
Contact a Delaware County Motorcycle Accident Lawyer at Bikers Have Rights to Fight for Your Rights and Get the Settlement You Deserve
Have a Delaware County motorcycle accident lawyer at Bikers Have Rights fight for you from the moment you hire us for your case. To schedule a free consultation, contact us online or call today at 877-333-0300. Located in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, we proudly serve clients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.