How Can a Motorcycle Accident Attorney Help You Recover Damages in Missouri?

How Can a Motorcycle Accident Attorney Help You Recover Damages in Missouri?

Helping You When Badly Injured

The first way that a lawyer helps you is by taking over your case so that you can concentrate on recovery. This is often especially important in a motorcycle accident, since the unprotected nature of motorcycles is such that riders frequently sustain especially serious injuries in crashes. Your lawyer will deal with the insurance companies, worry about investigating what happened, make sure everything is filed on time, and take the burden off your shoulders so that you can just worry about getting better.

Helping Overcome the Bias

It is well known that motorcyclists experience a lot of bias. Many people, including many insurance companies, assume that motorcyclists are reckless by nature and tend to assume that accidents are their fault. Even though motorcycles in Missouri are legal road users and entitled to all the same protections as those driving a vehicle, the reality of public perception can make it an uphill road to get compensation. Your lawyer will fight to use the evidence to show what actually happened rather than what people might assume happened because a motorcycle is involved.

Helping You Deal With Insurance Companies

Whether you’re on a motorcycle or in any other kind of vehicle, dealing with insurance companies is never simple. These companies are most interested in protecting their own bottom line, and that means they have some tactics they love to pull out to discourage people who are bringing a claim. They often delay communicating with you or bringing requests for more information, hoping they can push past the statute of limitations so that you’ll run out of time to file a lawsuit.

They may also be hoping to demoralize you so that you believe there’s really nothing you can do and will just accept whatever they offer, even if the compensation they’re offering is well below what you deserve. In motorcycle accidents, it’s common for them to try to shift blame onto the rider and challenge the severity of your injuries. An experienced lawyer has seen it all before, and we’ll go to bat to make sure you get everything you’re owed.

Talk to a Parkville, MO Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

If you’ve been injured, don’t try to go up against the bias and an experienced insurance company on your own, especially if you’re injured. Set up a free consultation with us today at Spooner & Perkins Attorneys at Law in Parkville, MO. We’ve been serving the greater Kansas City area for more than 60 years and can represent clients anywhere in Kansas or Missouri. 

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