Nathan was driving home on a blustery spring evening along a busy two lane road. It was still light, but dusk was beginning to darken the sky. Nathan was traveling about 35 miles per hour when a large pickup in the oncoming lane suddenly turned left into the side of his compact car. The impact was hard, causing significant damage to the front and side of Nathan’s car. Later that evening in a nearby emergency room Nathan learned that he had suffered multiple injuries, including a significant bone fracture.
Nathan thought it seemed like a straight-forward case. He assumed the at-fault driver’s insurance company would pay his damages. But he was in for a surprise. After Nathan got out of the hospital, the other driver’s insurance company was not very accommodating. The other driver claimed Nathan didn’t have his headlights on and therefore the accident was Nathan’s fault.
Nathan recognized that he needed an attorney. He quickly hired Charlotte Weigel and MW Injury Resolutions. Charlotte immediately sent an engineer to the wrecking yard to inspect Nathan’s vehicle. Although the front of the car was heavily damaged, the engineer was able to gather an array of evidence proving that Nathan’s headlight were on when the other party steered his large pickup into the side and front of Nathan’s car. Had Nathan failed to act quickly to hire legal counsel, the car would been destroyed and, with it, the evidence his lawyer needed to help prove the other driver’s fault.
In spite of the physical evidence against him, the other driver still maintained he didn’t see Nathan’s car. Charlotte persisted in her efforts to convince the other driver’s insurance company to admit responsibility. Charlotte took the other driver’s deposition and learned that he had been having difficulty with his vision at the time of the incident. Charlotte then obtained the other driver’s medical records which showed that his eye sight was so bad that he had surgery to correct the problem a few months after the accident.
The other driver’s insurance company finally conceded responsibility for the accident, but then tried to minimize the extent of Nathan’s injuries.
Charlotte had already anticipated that the insurance company would try to minimize Nathan’s serious fracture injuries. They initially mended, but Charlotte knew that injuries like Nathan’s often involved long term effect. She suggested that Nathan seek the opinion of an orthopedist experienced in long term treatment of injuries similar to Nathan’s fracturse. Unlike the first orthopedic doctor, the specialist ordered diagnostic studies that showed Nathan would likely need surgery in the future as a result of injuries sustained in the collision.
The insurance company finally accepted responsibility for Nathan’s injuries and settled the case for several hundred thousand dollars - just before trial.description of the story.new full description of the story.
Note: The is the true account of one of our success stories. However, to protect the privacy of our clients, fictional names have been used and minor details changed that do not affect the authenticity of the story.
