What Should You Do Immediately After Suffering a Personal Injury?

If you’ve just been injured, your whole focus is likely on the injury itself and recovering from it. But if you’ve been injured due to the negligence of someone else, you may need to bring a personal injury lawsuit. If you hope to do so, there’s some things you should do to protect your rights, starting with contacting a personal injury attorney in Long Island, NY.

Get Medical Help

You should not delay getting medical help, particularly if you’ve been badly injured. You will need the records you have from your appointment for your case if you choose to bring a lawsuit, and the longer you delay, the more likely it is that the other party’s insurance company will try to argue that your injuries were not severe or had nothing to do with the accident at all.

Report the Accident

Whether you have slipped and fallen at a store, been injured on someone’s personal property, been in a car accident, or been hurt at work, you should always report the accident to the appropriate authorities. This could be the police or your employer, or it might be the manager of a store. Reporting it creates a paper trail which, again, you will need for your case. If you don’t report the incident, it becomes more difficult to prove that it happened at all.

Gather Evidence if Possible

If you’ve been too badly injured, you may not be able to accomplish this step on your own. Your lawyer can help you here, however, so if you’re not able to gather evidence on your own, let your lawyer know this immediately.

You want to have pictures of everything: the immediate and surrounding areas, any weather conditions extant at the time of the incident, your injuries, any signs (or lack of signs), etc. If there might be a security cam or dash cam that recorded the incident, you want to get this as quickly as possible. Talk to your lawyer about it because you risk of the footage being erased, either accidentally or on purpose, if you wait too long.

Contact a Long Island, NY Personal Injury Attorney

As soon as you feel able to after the accident, connect with a personal injury lawyer who has experience here in the New York area. You want to work with an attorney familiar with the laws of New York and New York City and who has experience in the local courts.

It’s also important that your lawyer get on the case as quickly as possible. There’s a time limit for bringing a personal injury suit, and everything needs to be done in just the right way if you hope to be successful.

If you’ve been injured due to the negligence of another person, you deserve to be compensated. But to get that compensation, you will have to fight for it. You don’t have to do this alone, though. Contact us at Miller, Montiel & Strano in Garden City, NY now for help. 

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