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A new look at an Auto Accident Lawyer
I used to despise accidentlawyers with passion. To me, they are a
bunch of professionals building up wealth on someone else's misery. Until,
one day I hired the service of one auto accident lawyer, to pull me out
from mine.
Who are accident lawyers, anyway? Are they devil's advocates per se?
You see a lot of advertisements on television, hear them on the radio,
and are invaded by them in pop-up ads…for auto accident lawyer
consultation, help, and defense services. You may, as many of us do, find them
funny and make fun of them yourself. You may be irritated or
intimidated by the prevalence of auto accident lawyer information—thinking that
the influx of such high numbers and instances of such ads suggests we
are not only an increasingly dangerous but highly litigious culture.
I am by no extremes litigious. I am almost opposite, being
non-confrontational to the extreme of being daunted by hostility, intransigence, or conflict of any kind. But one night, after staying three volunteer hours beyond my ten-hour workday at the learning center, I would come to be grateful for the auto accident lawyer.
I was slammed into, bashed into, rammed by a drunk driver. She was so
plastered and driving so fast and used me as a crash-test dummy to stop
her, instead of her *&%$ brakes, that when her Jeep hit my brand new
truck the impact forced the bed of the truck to jump off its chassis and
slam into the cab of the truck. Once I relayed the information to my
mother, a week or so later, she said I should have thrown myself out of
the truck and onto the ground and writhed in agony…. Of course, she
was kidding, exaggerating, but as a retired auto insurance agent, she was
making the point that that is what the auto accident lawyer is for: he
or she will fight for your rights (to NOT be used as a battering base)
when you don’t want to, can’t, or are afraid to.
I wasn’t afraid or emotionally disturbed by the accident, and wasn’t
even more than perturbed when I had immediate neck problems and a severe
case of migraines…which kept me out of work off and on for days on end.
That is, I would feel fine, go to work, and then all of sudden seize up
and needed to be carried and driven home.
I didn’t even think about getting a separate auto accident lawyer until
I had had the truck assessed, received compensation for the material
damage, had applied for reimbursement of something like a piddly 2,000 or
so dollars—to cover my lost wages and three medical visits, one to the
emergency room and two to my HMO doctor.
When I got the drunk’s insurance company letter that said “because the
damage to your vehicle was ONLY $5,000, we are willing to pay you
bodily expenses of $700.” This pissed me off and I called the insurance
company, threatening to get an auto accident lawyer, the representative
said something like, “Whatever! How do WE know you don’t have a history
of migraines???!”
You know what, skank? Even If I have a history of m.f. BRAIN DAMAGE,
your client smashed my vehicle, thus she needs to PAY. MY pre-existing
conditions are IRRELEVANT to a sloppy dinkweed who drives under the
influence of a quart of gin.
The drunk ADMITTED to the cops she was too drunk to be driving; she
said it over and over and over. It is in the reports. Drunk driving is
also a crime. My otherwise comme ce comme ca attitude was so rattled
that I contact an auto accident lawyer. In fact, I was so pissed that I
was being bs’ed, that I called a second auto accident lawyer.
No one who has forfeited rights by abusing privileges should be allowed
to get away with the smallest of transgressions. As Piter Finch, as
Howard Beale says in the movie NETWORK, over and again, “WE’RE MAD AS
HELL, AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!”
My auto accident lawyer saved the day for me; accident lawyers are not
bespectacled predators they seem to be, afterall.
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