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When should I consider hiring an attorney?
A: Immediately! While an injured person does not always need the services of an attorney immediately, any time that your injuries are moderate to serious in nature and are, therefore, likely to leave you with some impairment on a permanent basis, as brain injuries are, I strongly advise you to seek the counsel of an experienced personal injury attorney. Because these injuries will have a lifelong impact not only on your ability to make a living, but also on your ability to engage in routine activities of daily living and generally enjoy life extensive workup of the claim is necessary for you to have any hope of being adequately compensated for losses. In addition, there is usually a need for immediate investigation to secure evidence because the brain injured individual often has little or no recollection of the accident and how it occurred. Critical evidence could, therefore, be lost. In addition, early determination of whether a brain injury may be present is critical so that this fact gets documented promptly in the medical records. Claims adjusters and jurors give inordinate weight to what is and what is not in medical records. A complaint about symptoms from a brain injury that appears in the medical records for the first time six months after the trauma will be much less likely, in the mind of the adjuster or juror, to be causally linked to the trauma even if there is a good explanation for the delay. It's the old maxim, "If it's not written down, it did not happen."
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P.O. Box 1248
677 Anne St.
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Bemidji, Minnesota 56601
Phone: 218-444-4529
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