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Eight Self-Help Suggestions for Motor Vehicle Accidents

1. Promptly notify your automobile insurance company

2. Have all sources of insurance benefits professionally evaluated -- automobile policies; group, government, or private health care plans;

3. Take photographs of the damage to your vehicle and of your injuries -- cuts, bruises, black and blue marks, swelling, etc.

4. Seek medical treatment for injuries and keep copies of all the bills.

5. Prepare a list of witnesses [their addresses and phone numbers] and draw a diagram of the accident.

6. Keep a daily diary of the problems that you are experiencing -- pain, headaches, walking, etc. -- and of the medications that you are taking.

7. Do not discuss the circumstances surrounding the accident with any insurance company until you have talked with a lawyer who accepts personal injury cases.

8. Keep the receipts for all of your out of pocket expenses and your bills for medication, taxis to doctors etc.

REMEMBER:

Depending on the facts surrounding your particular accident, you may be compensated for:

* - Pain and suffering.

* - Costs of medical treatment and prescriptions.

* - Scarring or disfigurement.

* - Loss of current and future income.

* - Loss of opportunity to advance

* - Loss of ability to perform any of the duties of your current occupation.

* - Damage to your vehicle and rental costs.