False Ads by Personal Injury Law Firms/Companies: Are You Falling for It?

Are you a regular recipient of calls from telesales people advertising about personal injury claims?

Have you experienced being waylaid on the streets by groups of two or three people asking if you would like to be a client?

Or, have you been answering the door lately for well-dressed, suitcase-toting individuals asking you to recall accidents you have been in for the past few years, telling you that you might have been qualified for personal injury claims during those accidents?

So, for the important question…What is personal injury and how does it concern you? Why do all these people seem to be interested in making you launch claims?

A personal injury is an occurrence wherein a person suffers a physical, emotional or psychological injury caused by an accident. Once the accident turns out to be someone else’s fault either by negligence or liability, then the person with injury has the legal right to file for monetary compensation. Such compensation will cover for damages incurred by the victim in the aftermath of the accident that was not his or her fault.

Negotiating for the compensation may be done through litigation or trial case.

Ten years or so ago, no one heard of personal injury law yet. Accident victims usually suffer and heal pretty much on their own, with the support of family and friends. No one ever heard of them being entitled for compensation for damages from the one who was at fault for the accident.

Nowadays, however, everyone knows all about his or her rights as victim of an accident. Everywhere there are advertisements. You will see law firms multiplying like clumps of mushrooms, advertising their experience and expertise, online, on electronic media and on newspapers and magazines.

Consequently, almost every person now become very investigative of every accident they encounter, seeking out for facts that might qualify their case for a personal injury suit.

As awareness grows, so are frauds involving these personal injury law firms or companies.

Remember that the number of disreputable law firms equal the number of those who are trustworthy. Unless you know what to do if things go wrong with your case, it is better to double-check the qualifications and trustworthiness of the firm you will hire for services.

You must never request the services of a company or firm just because they employ a relative or friend of yours. It gets complicated once the company does not deliver you the results you expect.

Do not also get so warmed up with firms who advertise the slogan “no win, no fee.” There are those who say that you do not pay anything if they lose the case. However, after you signed your signature under the personal injury claim they set up, you find yourself waiting out for months without any further updates on your case.

Then, a bill suddenly finds it way in your mailbox. When you call to ask what is going on, you find out that they already had a settlement with terms you were not even aware of and now they are charging you because it was in the agreement. Where is your compensation then?

Now, watch out for there is another new trick up their sleeves, and you might just be gullible enough to fall, hook, line and sinker!

According to some ads, you get 100% compensation. Indeed, you get the compensations, but the company will then charge you for a share of it – afterwards. After all they are the one who got you your compensations, so after everything, it is time to deduct their “share in the pie.”

There is only one thing to do to avoid being taken for a fool.

Be cautious.

Do not be so gullible as to believe every bit of propaganda they launch to make you file your claims through them. You have every right to file for personal injury claims, but you have to be careful that you get the compensation. You have to work out the payments even before you start signing anything.

Nowadays, it pays to be careful…from getting into accidents and hiring personal injury attorneys and/or firms.