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<title><![CDATA[C.G. Motor Sports Moving to Chino]]></title>
<link>http://losangelescommercialrealestate.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/c-g-motor-sports-moving-to-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dbramante</dc:creator>
<guid>http://losangelescommercialrealestate.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/c-g-motor-sports-moving-to-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[C.G. Motor Sports Moving to Chino Wednesday November 18, 2009 08:00 PM C.G. Motor Sports Inc., a gro]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>C.G.     Motor Sports Moving to Chino</strong><br />
Wednesday November 18, 2009 08:00 PM</p>
<p>C.G.     Motor Sports Inc., a growing and developing Southern California-based auto     parts manufacturer, signed an 82,645-square-foot lease for seven years with     G&#38;O Chino Property in Chino, CA. The tenant will occupy approximately     30 percent of the building. The one-story, 269,418-square-foot industrial     building is at 5150 Eucalyptus Ave. It is in the West San Bernardino submarket and was constructed &#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=80EE6EE218DE0F6602A874E14E1456D4&#38;ref=1&#38;src=rss" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[¿Qué pasa cuendo un iPhone y un N97 se lo montan en la cama?]]></title>
<link>http://moscapsa.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/%c2%bfque-pasa-cuendo-un-iphone-y-un-n97-se-lo-montan-en-la-cama/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Guascast</dc:creator>
<guid>http://moscapsa.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/%c2%bfque-pasa-cuendo-un-iphone-y-un-n97-se-lo-montan-en-la-cama/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Esto… No es precisamente lo que uno espera, pero este es un móvil made in China, un clon entre el iP]]></description>
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<p>Esto… No es precisamente lo que uno espera, pero este es un móvil <em>made in China</em>, un clon entre el iPhone y un N97. Se llama <a href="http://2008.eemobi.cn/products/11869/COOLi902.html" target="_blank"><strong>Cooli902</strong></a> y es un teléfono con una pantalla táctil y un teclado QWERTY, pero además tiene más “características”.</p>
<p>Aparte de su pantalla y teclado, tenemos una cámara de 2 megapíxeles, Bluetooth, WiFi y un sintonizador de TV. Todo esto por solo $142.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[La frase (83)]]></title>
<link>http://abrazador.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/la-frase-83/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Adrian Morales</dc:creator>
<guid>http://abrazador.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/la-frase-83/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Mental Illness V3&quot; by Hiragraphic &#8220;Hay tres cosas que nunca vuelven atrás: la palab]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Victor Cortés]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/victor-cortes-3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/victor-cortes-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[他的名字是維克多科爾特斯。這很有趣，因為他是那種小的成功記錄在磁帶電台和取消這種方式創建自己的音樂收藏。 因此，在您的案件，這是一個需要一個激情的locuta從出生前&#8230;來吧，這打破了主題。]]></description>
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<p>他的名字是維克多科爾特斯。這很有趣，因為他是那種小的成功記錄在磁帶電台和取消這種方式創建自己的音樂收藏。</p>
<p>因此，在您的案件，這是一個需要一個激情的locuta從出生前&#8230;來吧，這打破了主題。他狂熱的音樂邁克歐菲爾德的朋友提出了相同的口味您打算做一個程序對當地一家電台的人，讓更多人分享音樂的風格。在第一，維克多沒有被接受，因為他沒有看到在前面的一個麥克風，但最終沒有。 1995年3月開始這一切，並發現了什麼作用的音樂和薯片，成了他的新歡：無線電廣播。</p>
<p>維克多科爾特斯度過了他的自由時間，在市電視台，為什麼又在工廠工作，一九九五年至2004年，她做了一切：公式，發冷，出方案，迪斯科，舞蹈等。 2004年，維克托科爾特斯進入洛杉磯 40 Principales奧索納和2005年將提出的公式Flaix調頻到2006年，當時他委託提供時鐘“Flaix馬蒂”雙重的觀眾。</p>
<p>在桌面上你的計算機是一個混亂，充滿了廣告歌曲，韻律詩指示性的，因此，短語結合電台節目製作 &#8230;維克多科爾特斯 peeeero歐洲的感覺，所以現在他在這裡與大家分享他們的激情的音樂，為調頻收音機和歐洲。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Venus]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/venus-3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/venus-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[女神的海浪回其自然棲息地。金星返回到程序，看到他成長為專業人士。   金星是瘋狂的習俗。在自己的時間和晚上打開了歐洲調頻蓬特的測試程序，並把他與他的隊友理應贏得 2007年的翁達斯獎最佳廣播節目。隨後]]></description>
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<p>女神的海浪回其自然棲息地。金星返回到程序，看到他成長為專業人士。</p>
<p> </p>
<p>金星是瘋狂的習俗。在自己的時間和晚上打開了歐洲調頻蓬特的測試程序，並把他與他的隊友理應贏得 2007年的翁達斯獎最佳廣播節目。隨後在上午和想嘗試分享麥克風與何塞米格爾克魯斯和其他團隊的我告訴你，但是這不會早起她。因此，在一段時間花費在小屏幕上，顯然在夜間出現在各種雜誌，特別喜歡談論性，動物，你喜歡什麼，接觸的人，又回到了哪些成立：證明自己背後的麥克風，在歐洲外長。</p>
<p> </p>
<p>他的自信，性感和經驗都證明了多火花需要的程序提出開放薩瓦特。如果你認為現在的事情，你感到驚訝，準備重新回到你的金星火花電台，您的手機 &#8230; &#8230;我們知道，晚上是不一樣沒有金星，現在三人金星，達妮埃拉布盧姆和勞拉讓您花曼薩內多最潮濕的夜晚夢寐以求。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Uri Sabat]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/uri-sabat-3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/uri-sabat-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[想知道一些有關我嗎？- 我Oriol薩瓦特 i Gracia格斯雅，巴塞羅那，25年，我金牛座，金牛座和超級頑固。我最喜歡的顏色是紅色。我感興趣的是世界上廣播和電視，有時我很喜歡聽，並期待]]></description>
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<p>想知道一些有關我嗎？- 我Oriol薩瓦特 i Gracia格斯雅，巴塞羅那，25年，我金牛座，金牛座和超級頑固。我最喜歡的顏色是紅色。我感興趣的是世界上廣播和電視，有時我很喜歡聽，並期待&#8230;</p>
<p>我喜歡打放鬆運動，聽音樂或舞蹈，臀圍 &#8211; 合如果可能的話。我討厭不公正和不容忍的人。家人和朋友superimportantes在我的生命。我喜歡聚會。我迷上了一些損失等一系列影碟（何洛巴托謝謝！）。我喜歡拍照，我每天都用照相機在我的口袋裡。我沉迷於互聯網。其中最好的事情已經發生在我身上是知道這個瘋狂的三重奏！</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Laura Manzanedo]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/laura-manzanedo-4/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/laura-manzanedo-4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[勞拉曼薩內多以演員的身份開始在系列鋁薩利爾日化酶，但現在已經高中畢業，她頭髮凌亂，與我們每天晚上在Ponte阿Prueba。   阿交匯點，為 33年，勞拉曼薩內多會見了它的一個最有害的夢想：讓團隊從]]></description>
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<p>勞拉曼薩內多以演員的身份開始在系列鋁薩利爾日化酶，但現在已經高中畢業，她頭髮凌亂，與我們每天晚上在Ponte阿Prueba。</p>
<p> </p>
<p>阿交匯點，為 33年，勞拉曼薩內多會見了它的一個最有害的夢想：讓團隊從蓬特1 Prueba。事實證明同性戀旁邊儀在Al薩利爾德克拉塞，大膽無畏地為島內著名的，揭露在去年的人，誰躲在喲大豆衣，最近提出公開的Interviu雜誌。</p>
<p> </p>
<p>曼薩內多勞拉已經有許多角色和作用，但在這段時間 &#8230;可以踏上地球和聽到的令人不寒而栗的和有害的證詞蓬特每晚要測試？法官為自己</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Josep Lobató]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/josep-lobato-5/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/josep-lobato-5/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[自2006年9月，在離開 Flaix，何洛巴托調頻加入歐洲，在那裡他指揮，並介紹了程序測試 radioPonte至2008年7月，該程序翁達斯文學獎授予2007年“最佳西班牙語電台節目。在5月，同年出]]></description>
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<p>自2006年9月，在離開 Flaix，何洛巴托調頻加入歐洲，在那裡他指揮，並介紹了程序測試 radioPonte至2008年7月，該程序翁達斯文學獎授予2007年“最佳西班牙語電台節目。在5月，同年出版，廣播同胞一起，他的第三本書，並首次在西班牙文：“獲取測試。這本書“，其中再次反映了夜間的經驗解釋程序的追隨者。 11月，同年出版的“獲取測試。機密“，第二本書的基礎上達到歐洲外長。在2008年5月開始銷售“獲取測試 2”，最後一本書出版至今何洛巴托與程序組件。</p>
<p>自2008年9月，現在的一部分，在您的模板驅動四個不同的娛樂節目主持人。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Daniela blume]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/daniela-blume-3/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/daniela-blume-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[達妮埃拉布魯姆是放蕩德蓬特阿Prueba。這個驚人的金發碧眼的22年會帶來革命性的夜晚唯一的程序是不敢讓其他電視台。 達妮埃拉布魯姆在一轉的臉或火星紀事 TNT炸藥，和Daniela布盧姆是]]></description>
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<p>達妮埃拉布魯姆是放蕩德蓬特阿Prueba。這個驚人的金發碧眼的22年會帶來革命性的夜晚唯一的程序是不敢讓其他電視台。</p>
<p>達妮埃拉布魯姆在一轉的臉或火星紀事 TNT炸藥，和Daniela布盧姆是&#8230;很年輕，但經驗豐富。這是女王的性技巧，從蓬特測試，並準備在需要時擺脫困境，使您的生活更愉快。</p>
<p>達妮埃拉布魯姆在加拿大讀書，只有18所取得的飛躍給媒體。她喜歡穿著鮮豔的色彩，但我們想知道：是否有任何人比她更引人注目？。</p>
<p>享受布魯姆在Ponte測試每天一周，並在夜間你的生活更濕潤 &#8230;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Patri Lopez]]></title>
<link>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/patri-lopez-6/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rafiss</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infirito.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/patri-lopez-6/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; - 年齡：26歲 - 原產地：我安達盧西亞，尤其是在塞維利亞。 - 你要什麼更？ 由於非常小的我是一個瘋狂的舞蹈和媒體。 - 你在你的閒暇時間？ 在那裡我知道我來的始終是在球上的所有球，]]></description>
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<p>&#160;</p>
<p>- 年齡：26歲</p>
<p>- 原產地：我安達盧西亞，尤其是在塞維利亞。</p>
<p>- 你要什麼更？</p>
<p>由於非常小的我是一個瘋狂的舞蹈和媒體。</p>
<p>- 你在你的閒暇時間？</p>
<p>在那裡我知道我來的始終是在球上的所有球，特別是在塞維利亞年04 loooooca我談談！傑杰奧！</p>
<p>- 除了樂趣蓬特測試，你該怎麼辦？</p>
<p>我是一個舞者，主持人的職業，如果你atent @秒，你會看到我在視頻剪輯比斯巴爾和大衛奇韋拉，朋友誰愛她高昂的代價。</p>
<p>- 降落在蓬特如何測試？</p>
<p>何洛巴托會見了電視之間的舞蹈。由於這種友誼我拿起電台錯誤。</p>
<p>- 告訴我們一些小秘密，你覺得如何&#8230;</p>
<p>我到達蓬特測試是一個挑戰我。第一次我在我的生活廣播電台，我希望將持續很長時間。我喜歡的一部分，“只有程序，不敢讓其他電視台”與何，開放和金星&#8230;並與大家。我希望“乘”的良好共鳴 muuuucho每晚。</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Suit Woman]]></title>
<link>http://freiraumfrankfurt.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/suit-woman/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>freiraumfrankfurt</dc:creator>
<guid>http://freiraumfrankfurt.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/suit-woman/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SUIT Katja Dress 67% Cotton / Baumwolle 31% Nylon / Nylon 2% Elastane / Elasthan Color:  Black Sizes]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Suit Men]]></title>
<link>http://freiraumfrankfurt.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/suit-men/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>freiraumfrankfurt</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[SUIT Nemo Chino Pant 100% Cotton / Baumwolle Color: Blue and Beige Sizes : S – XL Price: 69,90 € SUI]]></description>
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<h3>SUIT Nemo Chino Pant</h3>
<p>100% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
Color: Blue and Beige<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 69,90 €</p>
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<h3>SUIT Seed V-Neck Sweat</h3>
<p>50% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
50 % Acrylic / Acryl<br />
Color : Orangered<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 99,90 €</p>
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<h3>SUIT Junior Round Neck Sweat</h3>
<p>50% Wool / Wolle<br />
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Color : Blue<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 99,90 €</p>
<h3>SUIT Jodphur Pant Upwood</h3>
<p>100% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
Color : Blue and Black<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 79,90 €</p>
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<h3>SUIT Loose Fit Chino Washed Out</h3>
<p>100% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
Color : Grey and Blue<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 99,90 €</p>
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<h3>SUIT Wintercoat Jacket Wayne</h3>
<p>100% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
Color : Blue<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 209,90 €</p>
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<h3>SUIT Stanislaw Cardigan</h3>
<p>70% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
30% Rayon<br />
Color : Orangered<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
<p>Price: 89,90 €</p>
<h3>SUIT Nemo Chino Pant</h3>
<p>100% Cotton / Baumwolle<br />
Color: Blue and Beige<br />
Sizes : S – XL</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Negotiate A Chino Pedestrian Accident Claim For A Top Settlement Without An Attorney]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-pedestrian-accident-claim-for-a-top-settlement-without-an-attorney-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multip]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Settle Wrongful Death Insurance Claims For The Maximum Settlement Without An Attorney in Chino]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-wrongful-death-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-an-attorney-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-wrongful-death-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-an-attorney-in-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Wrongful Death Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple mi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Wrongful Death Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Negotiate A Chino Wrongful Death Claim For The Maximum Settlement Without A Lawyer]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-wrongful-death-claim-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-wrongful-death-claim-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Wrongful Death Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and mult]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Wrongful Death Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-truck-accident-insurance-claims-and-get-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-truck-accident-insurance-claims-and-get-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Truck Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple mill]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Truck Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Negotiate A Chino Truck Accident Claim For The Largest Settlement Without An Attorney]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-truck-accident-claim-for-the-largest-settlement-without-an-attorney/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-truck-accident-claim-for-the-largest-settlement-without-an-attorney/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Truck Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple mi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Truck Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar, or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-personal-injury-insurance-claims-and-get-the-maximum-settlement-without-an-attorney-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Personal Injury Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple m]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Personal Injury Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-personal-injury-claim-for-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-personal-injury-claim-for-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Car Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple millio]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Car Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Settle Pedestrian Accident Insurance Claims And Get The Max Settlement Without A Lawyer in Chino]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-pedestrian-accident-insurance-claims-and-get-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-pedestrian-accident-insurance-claims-and-get-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Negotiate A Chino Pedestrian Accident Claim For A Top Settlement Without An Attorney]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-pedestrian-accident-claim-for-a-top-settlement-without-an-attorney/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-pedestrian-accident-claim-for-a-top-settlement-without-an-attorney/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multip]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Pedestrian Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Settle Motorcycle Accident Insurance Claims For The Maximum Settlement Without An Attorney in Chino]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-motorcycle-accident-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-an-attorney-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-motorcycle-accident-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-an-attorney-in-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Motorcycle Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multip]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Motorcycle Accident Insurance Attorney with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Negotiate A Chino Motorcycle Accident Claim For The Max Settlement Without A Lawyer]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-motorcycle-accident-claim-for-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-negotiate-a-chino-motorcycle-accident-claim-for-the-max-settlement-without-a-lawyer/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Motorcycle Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Motorcycle Accident Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Settle Dog Bite Homeowner Insurance Claims For The Maximum Settlement Without A Lawyer in Chino]]></title>
<link>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-dog-bite-homeowner-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sebastiangibson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://blog.sebastiangibsonlaw.com/2009/11/23/how-to-settle-dog-bite-homeowner-insurance-claims-for-the-maximum-settlement-without-a-lawyer-in-chino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As a Chino Dog Bite Homeowner Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>As a Chino Dog Bite Homeowner Insurance Lawyer with millions of dollars in settlements and multiple million dollar or larger settlements from over thirty years of experience in or around Chino, other nearby cities and internationally, I know many of you are attempting to settle your own personal injury, dog bite and wrongful death cases by yourselves for the maximum and the biggest settlement you can to save the cost of an attorney.</p>
<p>	In this article I’ll tell you the secrets of how attorneys negotiate for top dollar and I’ll also tell you why insurance companies lick their chops and rub their hands together with glee when individuals try to settle their claims without an attorney and why, in most cases, you’ll receive a larger, much greater amount in your pocket or in the trust fund you set up for any children injured in the accident, even after an attorney’s fee and costs if you hire a reputable and experienced personal injury attorney.</p>
<p>	If you’ve been the victim of a car, motorcycle, bike, truck, pedestrian, bicycle, or auto accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been the victim of a dog bite or animal attack, you can visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website. </p>
<p>	First, you need to know that insurance companies evaluate cases two ways.  As soon as you begin negotiating with the insurance company yourself, they evaluate your case, unfortunately, in terms of a nuisance value matter.  They’ve settled tens or hundreds of thousands of cases with individuals before for paltry amounts and they will expect they can settle your case for a measly amount as well.  </p>
<p>	Why do they look at you as if you’re chopped meat?  As soon as you tell them you are negotiating your own settlement, they know you’re trying to save money.  To them, that means you may even be desperate.  They also know you won’t be as knowledgeable about their tricks and tactics and like those tens or hundreds of thousands of people before you, they know how they can play you until you either become so frustrated you settle for their bad offer or become panicked that your time is running out.</p>
<p>	The second way they evaluate a case, namely one presented by a lawyer, is an analysis of what the case’s true settlement value is based on the attorney’s skill and experience, how prepared the case is for litigation in the event it doesn’t settle, and the actual value of the injuries and associated pain and suffering, wage loss and other out of pocket expenses.</p>
<p>	To settle your case for the largest amount possible, which may be the policy limits of the insurance policy, depending upon the severity of your injuries, you need to get the insurance adjuster to evaluate your case in the same manner they would as if an attorney were negotiating with them.  While most insurance companies, unfortunately, simply won’t do that, here’s what you need to do to try to obtain the maximum settlement value.</p>
<p>	First, you need to obtain all of your medical records and bills.  You can’t rely on the insurance company to do this.  As soon as you tell the insurance company you want them to do this or agree to having them do it and tell you how much your medical bills come to and what your medical records say, you are giving up control of the situation.  I can’t stress this enough.</p>
<p>	You will need to sign authorization forms to obtain your medical records and bills and pay the cost of obtaining those medical records and bills (the cost of which can range from $15 to hundreds of dollars) from each hospital, ambulance company, doctor, chiropractor, radiologist, emergency room billing service, etc.  Some medical providers require you to use their authorization forms.  Some require you to agree to their using a photocopy service to copy your records at a higher cost.  Some medical providers require one fee for your bills and another fee for your medical records.</p>
<p>	Just obtaining all of your medical records and bills is one of the most time consuming aspects of handling personal injury cases.  And, to make matters worse, you’re still not through with your medical providers.  When your treatment is complete and you have all of your medical records and bills and the first settlement offer is made to you, you’ll need to call each of your medical providers or their billing offices again to learn if you have any balance owing (and you can expect to be on the phone repeatedly and for long periods of time to learn this information) and in many cases you will need to send them another authorization form before they’ll tell you this information.</p>
<p>	You will need to obtain a copy of the police report.  This is a much simpler process.  Some police departments charge between $10 to $40 for a copy, while other departments provide them to you for free.  You can pick it up at the police or CHP office yourself or request one by mail with an authorization form and a check for the proper fee.</p>
<p>	You’ll also need to obtain your wage loss information on a wage loss form from your employer if you suffered any wage losses or had to use up valuable sick time, personal time, or vacation days.</p>
<p>	You should obtain witness statements if there is any issue as to the liability of the other driver for the accident and you should take photos of the scene if there was something wrong with the road conditions or other unusual circumstances.</p>
<p>	You will also need to obtain a number of good photographs of your car damage, copies of the vehicle repair bills and estimates and receipts for any items damaged in your vehicle.  </p>
<p>	Here’s a secret.  In California you are entitled to the cost of a replacement child seat if one was in the accident.  It’s automatic.  Just tell the insurance company the make and model or find out the cost for the make and model child seat and the insurance company will send you a check for a new one, even if the old one wasn’t broken.  Why?  It’s in the California insurance code.  The insurance companies, however, don’t volunteer this information.  Why?  They’re in business to make money, not pay it out.</p>
<p>	Finally, when all your treatment is done, you will need to put together a demand package with a demand letter reviewing the facts of the accident and the negligence of the other driver that made him or her at fault, a summary of your injuries and medical treatment (from your medical records), an itemization of your medical bills, a discussion of your pain and suffering and how the injuries impacted your life, a discussion of your wage loss and how you determined the amount, and finally the amount of your demand and a time limit (40 days &#8211; the time allotted under the insurance code) for the insurance company to respond with their offer.  The demand letter should be a minimum of four pages in length.  Some of ours have been close to twenty pages.  Accompanying the demand letter should be copies of all of your medical records and bills, color copies of the car damage photos, copies of the repair bills and estimates, any wage loss documentation and any other relevant items such as witness statements, etc.</p>
<p>	If all of this is too much work for you to accomplish (and it is a lot when you are just trying to get better, get on with your life, raise a family and still go to work to put food on the table) you may want to hire our law firm to represent you.</p>
<p>	The reason why, in most cases you will receive more, even after an attorney’s fees and costs are taken out, is that insurance companies offer much more to an attorney handling your case than when you are attempting to settle it yourself.  In addition, an experienced and reputable lawyer can also obtain reductions from your health insurance company and from any medical providers with a balance with regards to what amount has to be paid back to them out of any settlement.</p>
<p>	When you rely on the insurance company to pay your medical bills, and then simply pay you a skimpy amount on top, you are giving them the right to determine what bills they think were “reasonable” and to obtain any reductions in the bills to save themselves money.  When an attorney obtains a reduction in your bills or your health insurance company lien, the amount the attorney saves increases the amount of your net settlement.</p>
<p>	Keep in mind that as soon as you start negotiating your claim by yourself, it’s almost impossible for an attorney to persuade the insurance company to evaluate your case in the higher category type of claim.  At our law firm, while we’ll take on a case that may be months old where the injured victim has simply been receiving medical treatment, we won’t take on the case in most cases if the victim has already received a bad offer from the insurance company.  At that stage it’s usually too late for an attorney to make much of a difference.</p>
<p>	Hopefully, this article has provided you with some insights as to how to obtain the maximum settlement from an insurance company for an auto, car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, dog bite, or wrongful death claim.  There is much more that an experienced attorney does, especially in the negotiation stage to maximize the settlement and this is where an attorney’s experience kicks in.  </p>
<p>	An attorney such as Sebastian Gibson who has been negotiating these cases with many of the same adjusters for decades, knows the tactics and negotiating style of them and their companies and knows how refute the talking points their insurance companies train their adjusters to use in negotiations.  </p>
<p>	What causes many attorneys to be unable to settle their cases and who then find themselves with no alternative but to file a lawsuit in court and face two to five years of litigation before the matter settles or goes to jury, is to get angry (some even scream and yell) with the adjuster, box themselves into a corner and tell the adjuster something along the lines of, “If that’s the best you can do, we’re filing suit.”  The adjuster’s response to this is naturally, “go ahead.”  </p>
<p>	An insurance company doesn’t really care if they have to dump your case onto the case load of their attorneys who are already handling tens of thousands of such cases.  One more case, makes no difference to them at all.  They also know, you may give up or settle for even less when you learn from an attorney how much just the court costs will be.  Just to file a lawsuit in most courts alone incurs a $350.00 or larger filing fee.  Depositions can cost over a thousand dollars if they are lengthy.  And all such court costs come out of your settlement, even if you have a contingency fee attorney handling your case.</p>
<p>	Sadly, many of these same lawyers take this step or let their improperly trained staff members (secretaries and clerks) force the matter to such an impasse and then file suit without properly informing the client of the negotiations that took place and led them to that point.</p>
<p>	If you are negotiating with an insurance company yourself, there’s no need to be unpleasant.  Yes, you are probably going to hear that the insurance adjuster has evaluated your case to be worth much less than you think it’s worth.  But you’re forgetting that, that’s just their first offer.  Communicate with the adjuster.  Tell them how the injuries affected your life and tell them what you still go through today with the pain you still have.  You’ll be surprised how many adjusters will actually relate to what you tell them.</p>
<p>	Unfortunately, just as there are bad attorneys out there, there are also some lousy insurance adjusters and insurance companies to deal with as well.  They’re supposed to get back to you in 40 days with an offer after you present them with your demand package.  Some take longer.  Some will sound unpleasant, even snotty.  And once they make their first offer, it can take weeks sometimes to reach the adjuster again to make your counter-offer.  Sometimes the negotiations can take months.  If you want to get the most you can for your case, you need to be patient.  Your job, just as it is the job of your attorney, is to get these unpleasant insurance adjusters to warm up.  I ask them how the weather is, how they’re doing, if their busy, anything to get them to open up to me.  You’d be surprised how far a little kindness goes.</p>
<p>	We wish you good luck and a speedy recovery from your injuries.  You’ll find that your health, in many cases, will drastically improve, once you remove yourself from the stress of handling your case and resolve it either yourself or with the assistance of our law firm by way of settlement.  If on the other hand, your case goes into litigation, as do the cases of many lawyers who don’t have the settlement experience or negotiating tools to settle their cases advantageously for their clients, your stress level will almost certainly rise.</p>
<p>	The law firm of Sebastian Gibson handles personal injury cases in Chino, and throughout Southern and Central California and handle wrongful death cases throughout the state.  To learn more about Sebastian Gibson and the other areas of law handled by the law firm, visit the Sebastian Gibson website.</p>
<p>	We invite you to visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com and call us if you’ve been seriously injured in a personal injury auto, motorcycle, car, truck, pedestrian, or bicycle accident, lost a loved one in a wrongful death or been injured in a dog bite or animal attack in Chino.</p>
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