Our firm has been representing people who have been involved in accidents for decades and there is one thing that can greatly complicate any motor vehicle accident case. If you make this mistake then you can greatly complicate your Connecticut motor vehicle accident claim and can make it very, very difficult to maximize the amount of money that you can collect for your injuries and damages. This mistake not only applies to motor vehicle accident cases but could apply to a dog bite injury case or a slip and fall and trip and fall accident. It would even apply to a hit-and-run case or a pedestrian accident case.

What is this first major mistake that you can make?

If you have been injured in any type of an accident case involving a car, truck or motorcycle, bicycle, a slip and fall or trip and fall accident, some type of premises liability case occurring on a public or commercial property then you should contact the police department and have an accident report prepared.

We have been contacted by people who have been injured as a result of the negligence of another in some type of a motor vehicle accident and the other party talks this person into not contacting the police. This greatly complicates any type of injury or accident case because the insurance adjuster will want to take the position that it is a he said, she said case. The insurance adjuster will then try and either state that it was not the insured's fault or that the injured party is somehow responsible for a large percentage of the fault.

If you have been injured, through the fault of another, in any of the above types of accidents then you should immediately contact the police. If you are injured, you should insist upon being taken to the hospital in an ambulance so that your medical condition can be determined and the appropriate type of medical care and treatment can be prescribed. If you fail to follow these instructions and either don't contact the police or fail to get timely medical care and attention than you could greatly complicate your accident or injury case.

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