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You need an attorney when you're injured because it's not an easy task in order to get fully
and fairly compensated because you're up against big insurance companies with unlimited budgets
who's interest, sole interest, is to collect premiums and not pay out claims and therefore
they want to keep the dollars in their treasury, in their bank account and give you nothing.
And so if you're unrepresented, if you think you're are going to go at it alone and make
the best of it because you hope that you'll be treated fairly, you're going to be severely
disappointed, short-changed, and your life is going to get ruined for a second time.
From the very moment that you get injured through the fault of somebody else, the other
side has a representative whose only job it is, and that is the insurance company. The
only they have is to get that case settled for as little as possible because that insurance
company is not a human being. They're owned by shareholders and their shareholders want
them to bring in as much profit as possible and one way for them to have a higher profit
is to pay-out, to people who are hurt, as little as possible. I got into the personal
injury field because it was an opportunity to help people that needed help. Here you
have people who are injured through the wrongdoing of other people. They didn't do anything wrong.
They didn't cause their injuries. They have nowhere to turn. They're up against a powerful
adversary, an insurance company, who is determined not to pay them any money and it's, it's rewarding
to me to be able to put my arms around that person and act as their protector, act as
their advocate and go and get them the full compensation that they need to make them whole.
I knew I wanted to be a lawyer because believed in the justice system and I believed that
I could even the scales and aggressively advocate on behalf on "little guy" and the "little
guy" to me is the guy that gets injured, could be a large injury or profound injury, but
an injury that they suffered that they didn't have to suffer if somebody just wasn't careless.
And I want to give them all I've got in order to even the scales and make sure they get
all they deserve.