{"id":122,"date":"2019-04-02T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballardinjurylaw.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:59:55","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-go-it-alone-after-youve-been-injured-in-an-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballardinjurylaw.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/02\/why-you-shouldnt-go-it-alone-after-youve-been-injured-in-an-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Go It Alone After You&#8217;ve Been Injured in an Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7wyKLS7olzk\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not into videos?  Read the transcription below instead.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, this is Tahnya Ballard and I&#8217;m an attorney. I wanted to talk to you today about why you shouldn&#8217;t go it alone. I had a client who tried to go it alone after he slipped and fell on a plastic lid and that was on the floor, and he had some success in terms of getting some compensation for that, but I would not say complete success, which is what landed him in my office. There&#8217;s really two basic reasons that I think it&#8217;s best not to go it alone when you&#8217;re trying to get recovery for your injury, while you&#8217;re trying to recover physically and they both stem from the primary thing is you don&#8217;t speak their language.<br> You don&#8217;t speak the language of the adjuster and you don&#8217;t speak the language of the judge and sure, yeah, we&#8217;re all speaking English to one another, but you have to phrase things in a certain way so that the other party can really understand what you&#8217;re saying because each party to the negotiation or to the legal hearing has their own point of view, their own goals of what they&#8217;re trying to accomplish. As somebody who doesn&#8217;t deal with injury claims on a daily basis or doesn&#8217;t go to court on a weekly or monthly basis, you&#8217;re probably not familiar with that language.<br> I would say especially in the case of after you first get your injury and you&#8217;re on the mend and you want to start thinking about, well, how do I get some of these expenses paid back, the first kind of person you&#8217;re going to deal with is the insurance company for the other person who caused the injury and they have their own set of goals. Their goals aren&#8217;t necessarily to prevent you from getting anything. I wouldn&#8217;t say that, but they definitely want to minimize the amount that their employer, the insurance company has to pay out, right? You have to phrase things a certain way, which is why as part of our injury claims, we learn that language, we know that language, and we&#8217;re able to present the type of that the insurance company is interested in and there&#8217;s other types of information they&#8217;re not interested in.<br> If you spend a lot of time on that type of information, they&#8217;re not interested in that and as well, if you&#8217;re not able to settle the claim before you have to file a legal action, you might find yourself in a courtroom with a judge. I have to say I&#8217;ve been in courtrooms my fair share of time. It&#8217;s not a stress free environment. Many of the judges have very good temperaments and there&#8217;s others that don&#8217;t, and they&#8217;re trying to keep their courtroom and their calendar moving, and you need to talk to them succinctly and stated in a way that they understand using the legal terminology that makes sense to them. Chances are as somebody who hasn&#8217;t practiced law, you don&#8217;t know those things.<br> I thought of that when I was in court last week and I saw a lady in there who was by herself. She was not with an attorney and I thought how intimidated she must feel. Not that the judge was trying to intimidate her, but it could be very scary. It&#8217;s good to have somebody to help you in those situations. I think you would agree and so you might want to consider that. Now if you&#8217;d like to talk to us, please give us a call. You can call us and we&#8217;d be happy to talk to you about what kind of matter that you had. Our phone number is<strong> 775-391-5131<\/strong> and our <strong>California number is 916-287-7157<\/strong> please give us a call. I&#8217;d be happy to talk to you myself, unless I&#8217;m in court or I&#8217;m with another client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not into videos? Read the transcription below instead. Hello, this is Tahnya Ballard and I&#8217;m an attorney. I wanted to talk to you today about why you shouldn&#8217;t go it alone. 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