how our HAWAII INJURY LAWYERs can help you
Accidents that involve personal injury can permanently change your life or the life of a loved one. Whether it is a motor vehicle accident, or a fall from elevation, without an experienced attorney helping you or your family, insurance companies will try to minimize your injuries and your claims, and you may grow anxious and weary of fighting as medical expenses pour in and injuries linger. Our experienced attorneys can help you negotiate this difficult time and get you the settlement that you deserve. If retained as your attorneys, you can expect our law firm to:
1. Investigate your accident. This includes obtaining the relevant police and emergency report(s) and sending out an experienced photographer and/or investigator to get pictures of the accident scene and/or to obtain any important items relevant to your injuries.
2. Investigate your injuries. We will assist in obtaining the necessary records to substantiate your injuries. This includes obtaining relevant medical records, films and x-rays of your injuries, and hopefully, pictures of your injuries. These images and records are powerful tools that help our attorneys to prove up the extent of your damages.
3. Interview witnesses. We will help to build the factual basis for your accident and confirm liability by investigating the relevant facts and interviewing available witnesses.
4. Interaction with insurance companies. We understand how bully-like insurance companies can be in trying to get you to settle your claims for less than their fair value. They may ask unfair questions during recorded statements from you to try to hurt your case or they may ask you to fill out paperwork that is designed to be helpful to them and detrimental to you. We will help to minimize the hassles that you face by interacting with the relevant insurance companies and we will advocate on your behalf. With our help, you can be assured that the your efforts will be directed towards helping you to obtain a fair and reasonable settlement that properly reflects the value of your claims.
5. Retain experts. If your case is complicated and needs an accident reconstructionist, an economist, a medical expert or other expert witness, we will retain credible experienced experts who can help to explain to a jury how your accident occurred, why the other party involved is at fault, and the extent of your injuries and damages. These experts are expensive, but in many cases they are necessary in order to obtain a successful outcome.
6. File a personal injury lawsuit and take other legal action. If your claims cannot be settled for an appropriate amount without litigation, we will file a personal injury lawsuit and we will go to court on your behalf to ensure that you are fairly compensated. With our team of attorneys, who have obtained multi-million dollar jury trial verdicts, we will provide you with serious and effective trial counsel, if litigation is necessary.
7. Negotiate medical and other liens. One of the toughest components of personal injury claims these days is negotiating medical liens (TRICARE, Medicaid, ERISA, common law, and other lien claims) after a settlement has been reached. After you obtain a personal injury judgment, government agencies, medical insurance companies, disability insurers, workers' compensation carriers, and other entities will try to take a chunk of your recovery to pay themselves back for services or insurance payments that they may have made on your behalf. Our office will help you to oppose and negotiate these liens in order to ensure that you get to keep as much of your recovery as possible.
1. Investigate your accident. This includes obtaining the relevant police and emergency report(s) and sending out an experienced photographer and/or investigator to get pictures of the accident scene and/or to obtain any important items relevant to your injuries.
2. Investigate your injuries. We will assist in obtaining the necessary records to substantiate your injuries. This includes obtaining relevant medical records, films and x-rays of your injuries, and hopefully, pictures of your injuries. These images and records are powerful tools that help our attorneys to prove up the extent of your damages.
3. Interview witnesses. We will help to build the factual basis for your accident and confirm liability by investigating the relevant facts and interviewing available witnesses.
4. Interaction with insurance companies. We understand how bully-like insurance companies can be in trying to get you to settle your claims for less than their fair value. They may ask unfair questions during recorded statements from you to try to hurt your case or they may ask you to fill out paperwork that is designed to be helpful to them and detrimental to you. We will help to minimize the hassles that you face by interacting with the relevant insurance companies and we will advocate on your behalf. With our help, you can be assured that the your efforts will be directed towards helping you to obtain a fair and reasonable settlement that properly reflects the value of your claims.
5. Retain experts. If your case is complicated and needs an accident reconstructionist, an economist, a medical expert or other expert witness, we will retain credible experienced experts who can help to explain to a jury how your accident occurred, why the other party involved is at fault, and the extent of your injuries and damages. These experts are expensive, but in many cases they are necessary in order to obtain a successful outcome.
6. File a personal injury lawsuit and take other legal action. If your claims cannot be settled for an appropriate amount without litigation, we will file a personal injury lawsuit and we will go to court on your behalf to ensure that you are fairly compensated. With our team of attorneys, who have obtained multi-million dollar jury trial verdicts, we will provide you with serious and effective trial counsel, if litigation is necessary.
7. Negotiate medical and other liens. One of the toughest components of personal injury claims these days is negotiating medical liens (TRICARE, Medicaid, ERISA, common law, and other lien claims) after a settlement has been reached. After you obtain a personal injury judgment, government agencies, medical insurance companies, disability insurers, workers' compensation carriers, and other entities will try to take a chunk of your recovery to pay themselves back for services or insurance payments that they may have made on your behalf. Our office will help you to oppose and negotiate these liens in order to ensure that you get to keep as much of your recovery as possible.