Motor Vehicle Accident Lawyers

Motor vehicle accident injuries can range from mild to serious, and it can take some time to understand the full extent of your injuries. The most common types of motor accident injury include:

• whiplash,
• broken bones
• spinal injuries,
• back injuries,
• neck injuries,
• head injuries,
• brain injuries

Unfortunately, being involved in a car accident can also result in debilitating psychological injury.

While it is not required, a motor vehicle accident lawyer can help move the process along more quickly and produce better compensation results for the client. Since there are strict time limits set by NSW law around making a compensation claim, it is best to engage legal service and professional assistance if you or someone you love has suffered a motor accident injury as soon as possible.

 A legal professional can make sense of the incident from a legal standpoint and help you navigate the claims process.

If your child is still a minor (under 18) and has been injured in a motor vehicle accident, you as their parent or legal guardian have the right to claim for compensation on their behalf.

For more information on making a claim on behalf of a child, please contact BurkeMead Lawyers.

While there are strict timelines around when you need to make a claim, processing a claim can take time – how much time is dependent on a variety of factors, but primarily on your injuries, how complex the injuries are and what kind of treatment they require now and ongoing.

In regards to the amount you could potentially receive from a claim, this is dependent on a variety of factors, including your injuries, age, loss of earnings, care both now and in the future, out-of-pocket expenses and possible future expenses such as surgery.

Generally, the more serious your injury and the greater the impact on your life, the more you’ll receive in compensation. To understand this more fully, seeking out expert medical advice will help to assess what your injuries mean for your future work and life.

As your personal injury lawyers, we need as much information as possible to put evidence for your case together to support your claim. At this point, we should be able to provide realistic expectations for your claim and advice on how to proceed.

To ensure you get the best outcome from your claim, it’s important that you seek legal advice PRIOR to accepting any lump-sum payment from an insurer.

In NSW, and most other states/territories in Australia, it will be the insurance company of the driver who caused the accident who pays in most cases.

In short, yes, and the timeframes before lodging a motor vehicle accident claim can be quite strict.

Our expert motor vehicle accident lawyers can provide further information regarding eligibility, entitlements, ensure deadlines are met and that you get the compensation you need.

The overall legal costs for services (paid after the case from the compensation awarded) will depend on the amount of work required to resolve your claim.

We’ll explain more about how this funding works during your initial obligation-free consultation.