First time in a Pearland Car Accident? Don't make these 6 errors that will stop your claim in its tracks! Pearland Car Accident Lawyer outlines the 6 errors you must not make if you want just compensation for your injuries.

1. Leaving the scene without making a police report.
The Board Certified Pearland Personal Injury Attorneys see this critical mistake all the time. If you have been in an accident call the police. Without a police report the insurance company is very unlikely to pay anything on your claim.

2. Signing all of the forms the insurance adjustor sends to you.
No doubt the insurance adjustor will ask you "sign a few forms." DO NOT DO IT! These are forms that will be used to dig up totally private and completely irrelevant information about you. One of the forms will be an open-ended medical authorization that will give the insurance company access to virtually every medical record on you from every doctor you have ever been to? How is that sore back you had back in high school relevant to your sore back now, twenty years later? It does not. Another will be an open-ended employment authorization. How does your rate of pay ten years prior to the action have any relationship to your lost wages today? The answer is none. But the insurance company will use all of this irrelevant information to deny or lessen the value of your claim to an unfair level.

3. Giving a recorded statement to the insurance adjustor of the other driver.
This can be a real case killer. DO NOT GIVE A RECORDED STATEMENT to the INSURANCE ADJUSTOR. The insurace adjustor will ask you questions in such a way that the full and true facts will not be recorded. Another thing that happens frequently is the insurance company will produce a typed "transcript" of the recorded statement but they cannot produce the recording? Are we supposed to just trust them on their assertion you admitted the wreck was your fault? Come on. Just do not do this, you are under no legal obligation to give a recorded statement to the people working for the person that is at fault for the accident. You owe it to yourself, spend some time on this website reading the information we have made available to you and request a copy of our FREE book and read it before speaking with any insurance adjustor or company representative.

4. Not getting yourself to a doctor.
If you are really hurt, you should go to the emergency room or a doctor. If you are injured, you are not going to heal on your own. Even with treatment, simple muscle strains and sprains can take weeks or longer to heal. More serious injuries will never heal and cause you future problems down the road. Get yourself to the emergency room from the accident scene or follow-up with a doctor the very next day. Not doing so will cause you not to heal properly and will lessen the true value of your case.

5. Toughing it out at work even though you are really too injured to be there.
We all have to work. Everyone has to have money. But if your doctor tells you to stay home for a few days you need to do it. Not following doctor's orders is very harmful to your case in the eyes of insurance adjustors, company representatives and jurors.

6. Not following all the instructions of your doctor and therapist.
If the doctor prescribes 6 weeks of physical therapy you need to complete it. If the doctor prescribes medication you need to take it. Now, I don't mean to imply to do things you don't need. By all means when you begin to feel better you must tell your doctor your accurate condition. On the other hand, you must follow orders for as long as your injury persists.

You may not need a lawyer, but in all frankness, you really should consult a lawyer to make that decision. At a minimum, read these 6 things that can destroy your Pearland accident case and make sure that you use this information as part of the way you deal with the adjustors.