Ri Auto Accident Lawyer Video - D'oliveira & associates

Paul d'Oliveira attorney from the law offices of d'Oliveira & Associates. Car accidents in Rhode Island. The first thing we need to find out if you have been injured in a car accident, and you call us or you come in is liability. Was it the other drivers fault in whole or in part? Now if you were rear-ended it's probably 99 to 100% there fault that's pretty easy to show, most likely its 100 if you were rear-ended. Although if you had a tail light out, both your tail lights were out they may be able to argue that you were partially at fault. So liability is big, assuming that the other driver is at fault. The next thing is you can collect for a bunch of different things. One, a rental car this is from the other driver's insurance company by the way. Two, medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering. Pain and suffering is determined by a lot of different factors in fact you should probably look at another video "What's my injury case worth" to look into if you have questions on how we evaluate or how the insurance companies rather evaluate pain and suffering. We don't charge any fees until we obtain a settlement for you. A third is generally what we charge that's pretty standard in the industry. What can we do for you if were your lawyer, if you have been injured in a car accident in the state of Rhode Island? The first and foremost the important thing that we are going to do for you, is we're going to monitor your medical treatment. We're going to make sure that your doctors are treating you properly. Let's say that you have been rear-ended in a car accident and you have neck pain, several weeks go by and now you've got shooting pain going down your arm or if you have a back injury or you've got leg pain they call that sciatica. Your doctor should be ordering an MRI to see if there is some type of a disc problem, if they don't do that usually they do but sometimes they are human and they don't, were going to make sure that you get the proper medical treatment. Reviewing medical records a lot of times doctors don't always put in the pain and suffering that you're having, were going to make sure that they do that, review your medical records with you. We're going to call you once a month and go through things with you or you can come in and meet with us and that's even better. There's a lot of other things we can do to help gather evidence to how the injury has affected you. Maybe you haven't been able to work out at the gym or your grades, if you're a student, have gone down. There's a lot of different factors that come into play when we are determining the value of your case. In Rhode Island a person has to have a minimum of twenty-five thousand dollars coverage per person or fifty thousand what they call aggregate which is for everybody whose injured in that accident if their at fault, so we look at all the policies involved. How much coverage the driver had, and how much underinsurance you have either on your car or any cars in your household. We have had some very big settlements with car accident cases over the past twenty-four plus years. If you look at our largest settlement page you will see that, we've got a lot of experience handling personal injury, especially automobile accidents. So if you're thinking about hiring us, feel free to give us a call toll free or call us up or come on in for a free consultation, or fill out a contact form online if you prefer as we would be happy to discuss your case with you. Thank you.