Many auto accident injury victims wonder when they should contact their insurance company. The answer is as soon as possible. In fact, most insurers will require you to contact them promptly to report a car accident. (How quickly you should contact your insurance company should be spelled out in your policy.) You insurance company needs to gather all the facts about the accident, regardless of whether you are at fault. The company might also want to take a recorded statement from you about the details of the accident.
However, if you or a passenger were injured, or if you are concerned about your level of insurance coverage, it’s important to contact a Phoenix personal injury attorney BEFORE giving a recorded statement.
That being said, you are required by your policy to contact your insurance company in a timely manner. If you don’t, then that could result in loss of coverage without being considered an act of bad faith by the insurance company.
To have any more of your questions answered regarding insurance coverage after being involved in an auto accident in Arizona, please call Breyer Law Offices.
Simply say, “Thank you for calling but I am not prepared to discuss this matter with you at this time.” Never, ever give a statement to the other driver’s insurance company. Claims adjusters are trained to use psychological techniques in order to elicit certain information from you – information that may come back to haunt you later.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of an automobile accident in Phoenix, Arizona, we can help. Call Breyer Law Offices today at 602-978-6400.
As always, our initial consultation is free of charge. If we agree to accept the case, we work on contingent basis, which means we don’t get paid unless there is a monetary award or recovery of funds.
In personal injury car accident cases, there is a statute of limitations attached. So be sure to contact our Phoenix personal injury attorneys immediately following the accident; otherwise, you might lose out on your right to file a claim.
Medical payments coverage is a type of health coverage also known as “med-pay,” “personal injury protection (PIP),” or “economic loss protection benefits.” This coverage is meant to take care of practical expenditures brought on by needed medical and funeral services due to bodily injury resulting from an accident.
This kind of insurance is not required by Arizona law and only covers the insured driver and any passengers in the insured driver’s vehicle.
So, for instance, if a negligent driver injures you in a car accident, the other driver’s insurance company will not pay med-pay or PIP benefits. Only your own insurance policy can pay out these types of benefits to you.
There is a lot to think about after being involved in an auto accident in Arizona. If you’ve suffered injuries and believe that a negligent driver caused the accident, you may be able to seek compensation to help pay for expenses associated with your injuries and any property damage. Contact the experienced Phoenix personal injury lawyers at Breyer Law Offices, P.C., today for more information regarding your legal rights.
Pedestrians are some of the most vulnerable travelers on our roads. Many drivers simply aren’t paying attention and don’t notice a pedestrian crossing the street; other drivers may be ignoring the law requiring them to yield to pedestrians. Whatever the cause, pedestrian accidents can result in serious injuries and even death.
If you or a loved one has been injured in an Arizona pedestrian accident, please contact one of our personal injury lawyers right away. Due to the statutes of limitations in such cases, it is critical that our attorneys begin working on the case immediately. If possible, you should also try to get witnesses who can verify your account of the accident.
If you’re not sure if you have a claim, then it’s still important to contact an Arizona personal injury attorney experienced with pedestrian injuries who can effectively evaluate the situation to see if you have a case.
Breyer Law Offices has been together as the husband and wife law team from the day our firm started. For us, it’s not just important that we sharpen our skills as individual litigators. We believe that our strength derives from our strong collaborative ethic. Since day one, Alexis and Mark Breyer have been committed to working together to work out the complex problems that face our clients. They rely on each other to ensure their clients benefit as greatly as possible. They’re a team at home as well as at work.
And even as the firm has grown, the core element of the husband and wife law team has never wavered, and our clients have always been treated with the same outstanding care. At this firm, the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing because the right hand is married to the left hand.
Our clients get the maximum value. Our legal experience, specifically focused in the area of personal injury law, is strengthened by our bond with one another. And the concentrated power of our whole team of Phoenix personal injury lawyers is there to help them when they are in need.
We realize we are not the only lawyers you’ll come across who claim their years of experience in personal injury cases distinguish them from rest of the pack. But with so many law offices using the word experience to set themselves apart, we feel it necessary to elaborate a little more about what real trial experience brings. Among Arizona personal injury attorneys, it’s important to make a distinction between lawyers who bandy this word about and those who have actually earned their stripes.
First of all, we are not just experienced lawyers. We have a concentration on personal injury and wrongful death law. From the day we opened our firm, every case we’ve handled had the unambiguous goal of helping injured people get compensated when the injury was a result of a negligent or intentional act by somebody else. Even if that somebody else is a huge corporate power.
Secondly, we are not attorneys who focus solely, or prefer only to advise and consult with our clients in personal injury cases. We take cases to trial. At the risk of restating ourselves, we don’t treat your case like a spectator sport. We’re interested in getting the result you want. That’s our goal every step of the way.
In our previous post, we discussed how a client is assigned an experienced paralegal to be there from the beginning to the end of their personal injury case.
Now, what this means is that while our whole office may be working behind the scenes to move a case forward, there is one person who will get to know our clients, to be there for them, and to make sure their calls get returned. While Alexis, Mark, and everyone else in the office work diligently to get the best possible settlement or verdict in all of our personal injury and wrongful death cases, there is one person for each of our cases who will make sure that particular person knows that they are important to us. This person ensures that they feel valued, that their questions are answered, and, if they need to speak to a lawyer, this person will ensure that this happens.
As professional and experienced personal injury and wrongful death lawyers, we know a paralegal cannot stand in for a lawyer from our office, regardless of how exceptional he or she is. That is why all our clients have to do, in order to access a lawyer in our office, is tell the paralegal assigned to their case that they want to talk to a lawyer. Having one person who will work with a client from the beginning until the end of a case is an added benefit of working with Breyer Law Offices.
Communication is the key to ensuring that we treat each one of our personal injury clients as a person. As Arizona personal injury lawyers and professionals, we feel this is what our clients deserve.
There were no employees when Breyer Law Offices first began. There were only Alexis and Mark Breyer, a husband and wife team. There was nobody else. In those days, it was simple for clients to always have access to a lawyer in the firm. From the time the case started until it ended, a person could speak to either of us in person whenever they chose.
But due to our many successes we grew, as all successful businesses do. Word spread that not only were we successful in the courtroom, but we were successful in our job at giving our clients excellent service outside of court. People continued to promote us by word of mouth, and we continued to grow. We eventually reached a point where we had grown so much that our clients would speak to so many different people in our office about their case that we felt we were failing them. Because of our many successes as personal injury attorneys in Phoenix, Arizona and throughout the State of Arizona, we felt that we were now failing to provide that extra service that made us grow initially.
As personal injury lawyers in Tucson, we did not want to lose those special qualities that made us what we were, and we knew that it was important in our dealings with seriously injured clients that we keep that empathy and excellent service that had drawn so many people to our doors. That is why we now have a system where a client is assigned an experienced paralegal to be there from the beginning through to the end of any personal injury case.
Read our post tomorrow to learn more about the value of our paralegals and how we are able to maintain a strong connection with our clients with their assistance.
In our previous post, we began our discussion regarding how important it is to us that our clients receive the quality assistance that they deserve. Any of our clients who want to speak with a lawyer need only to call the paralegal assigned to their case and that paralegal will then set up a mutually agreeable time to speak directly to one of the office’s lawyers. It is in this way that we are able to readily answer our clients’ questions and remain accessible to them all the time. In cases when emergencies occur, and we understand that they do, our lawyers have the skill to answer almost any question pertaining to almost any of our cases. The way in which we handle cases gives us an advantage, as the manner in which we select cases and manage them enables our clients to be able to access us whenever they need to.
We never want any client of ours to ever look back and feel that they did not have full access to speak with an Arizona personal injury lawyer to get questions answered directly from an attorney. We simply will not tolerate anything less than excellent service to all of our clients who come to us and trust us.
Customer service is a key to our success. We never want any of our clients to feel that they cannot get their questions answered directly from their lawyer. We want our clients to trust us and come to us when they have questions. We do not tolerate anything less than excellent service for them.
I cannot count how many times I have heard about people who complained that other lawyers that they have had in the past failed to keep the lines of communication open. Complaints regularly arose about the lack of communication between themselves and the law office, though often they would not even have contact with their lawyer.
At Breyer Law Offices, we feel our clients have the right to access us as their legal representatives. Our clients have the right to speak to their lawyer, and not just to leave a message on voice mail or talk to a receptionist. People hire us as lawyers to provide the advice and knowledge that only personal injury lawyers in Arizona can provide. If someone hires a lawyer but then does not get answers to their legal questions directly from the lawyer they have hired, how can they trust the information they are getting is truly being answered truthfully by a professional attorney?
We do understand some of these lawyers’ perspective when it comes to dealing with their clients. As personal injury lawyers, we are extraordinarily busy handling extremely important work concerning serious injuries for every one of our clients. We go to court, we work on briefs, and we do everything possible to move a case forward. Because of this, we know that simply giving out our number would be a failure on our part. There are times when we are in the courtroom or office for long trials that take weeks and, in such times, we barely have time to check our voice mail let alone return all phone calls immediately. There are times when we are busy throughout the day and night and are unable to get a full night’s sleep for weeks on end. It was for this reason that we came up with a policy to address such concerns, as we understood the importance our clients placed on being able to access our lawyers.
For more information regarding how we make sure that our clients’ needs are met, please refer to tomorrow’s post.
