Stillwater Motorcycle Accident Attorney

If you’re involved in a motorcycle injury wreck and you’re the driver of the motorcycle, the first thing you need to worry about is your health. Make sure you’re checked out. Make sure you get to a doctor. Make sure you follow the doctor’s orders. Make sure you do everything in your power to take care of your injuries and to deal with them. Our goal is to get you back where you were before the wreck. The second thing you need to do is hire legal representation who’s experienced in motorcycle wrecks. These wrecks usually are pretty tough on motorcyclists. Motorcyclists have nothing to protect them and so when they’re in a wreck, they’re injured pretty seriously. You need to have an investigator investigate the scene, and investigate the other driver. You need to take pictures. You need to preserve witness and get their contact information. More often than not, motorcycle drivers have other things to worry about after a wreck, and that’s why you need to hire a competent, experienced attorney in Oklahoma to help you.

How do you select an attorney to deal with a motorcycle injury case? Well, you need to find an attorney who is experienced in dealing with motorcycle wrecks. You need to find an attorney who understands how important it is to have good healthcare providers and get you to those healthcare providers. You need to find an attorney that understands that you’re going to be laid up for a while and you can’t work, and he has to have some compassion for you. You have to find an attorney who will hire an investigator and work hard for you, do focus groups and make sure that he does everything in his power to frame this case in a way that maximizes your recovery. As you look for attorneys, ask them how many motorcycle wreck cases they’ve handled, ask them how many jury trials they’ve handled, and you need to select the one that has the experience you need and the one that you feel the best about.

The differences between a motorcycle injury case and an automobile injury case in Oklahoma are really pretty simple. I think the biggest difference is, more often than not, the injuries sustained by the motorcycle driver is more serious, more substantial, and has a higher rating of being permanent. Motorcycle drivers have no protection, they are out there, so the biggest thing is that you need to hire an attorney to help you get the medical attention you need to deal with your severe injuries.

I’ve been asked more than once, “What do I do when the insurance company calls me and asks for a statement?” Well, the first thing you need to know is don’t give them the statement. The second thing you need to do is hire a lawyer and refer the insurance adjuster or the insurance company to your attorney. As soon as you tell the insurance company you have an attorney, they will not ever call you back. You don’t want to run the risk of saying something or giving them a statement that will jeopardize your ability to a full, fair, and equitable settlement.
If you think the insurance company is your friend, you’re sadly mistaken. You have to understand; their job is to pay you as little as possible to resolve the claim. I would suggest you hire an experienced injury attorney to handle all your calls and all your correspondence with the insurance company.

If you’re in a motorcycle injury wreck, and you were a passenger on the back of the driver of the motorcycle, you have a claim, not only against the car or vehicle that might have helped this accident happen or ran into you, but you also might have a claim against the driver of the motorcycle, if they were driving the motorcycle in a reckless or negligent matter. These are difficult cases. Sometimes the people you’re riding with are close friends or family, and so I would suggest you hire an attorney as soon as you can to be able to help you understand your rights and be able to make the right decision on how to handle the claim against multiple parties.

Another common question I receive with motorcycle wrecks is, “I wasn’t wearing a helmet. Does that make me at fault if I sustained a brain injury?” My response to that is a jury is going to hear the evidence. The jury understands motorcycles; they understand helmets. It’s going to be whether or not the driver of the motorcycle contributed to this injury because he didn’t have a helmet on. That’s a question of fact for the jury. You’re not barred for bringing a lawsuit just because you didn’t have your helmet on. I would suspect that we would have to have a focus group determine, given the facts of your case, what a jury thinks about whether you had a helmet on or you didn’t have a helmet on. Don’t wait to hire an attorney. We need to get to a focus group early on to see what eight or nine people think about your case.

If you’re forced off a roadway by a reckless and negligent driver of a vehicle, you do have a claim against them. The biggest problem we have is that many times you can’t find the person who forced you off the road because you were being safety-conscious by making proper maneuvers to avoid the collision, and it leads you to be in a tough situation off the road. You do have a claim. Again, hire an attorney as soon as you can so they can attempt to find witnesses who saw the event and identify the person who caused you and forced you off the road. Hopefully, we can find those people and we can have a fair and equitable settlement.

If you’re in a motorcycle wreck in Oklahoma and you were injured, you’re entitled to your medical expenses, your future and past medical expenses, past and future pain and suffering, any compensation for permanent disability, and permanent impairment. You’re entitled to loss of your ability to live life, to enjoy your passions, to enjoy your hobbies, and to enjoy your family. These cases are usually pretty difficult when there’s serious injuries, so you need to hire a lawyer so he can advise you as to all the possible avenues of recovery and the damages you can ask for.