The First Offer After a Car Wreck and Why It Arrives So Early
The First Offer After a Car Wreck and Why It Arrives So EarlySpeed is the strategy
An adjuster who calls within days of a collision with a settlement offer is not being efficient on your behalf. Early offers are made while the medical picture is still incomplete, because that is precisely when the claim is cheapest to close permanently.
What is usually still unknown at that point
Soft tissue injuries frequently worsen over the first several weeks rather than improving. Imaging that would reveal a disc injury has often not been ordered, because conservative treatment comes first. Anything that will eventually require injection or surgery is typically months away from being understood.
A release signed at week two covers all of it, including treatment that has not happened and injuries not yet diagnosed. There is no mechanism to reopen it when the picture changes.
The recorded statement request
The other early move is a request for a recorded statement. You are obligated to cooperate with your own insurer under your policy. You are generally not obligated to give one to the other driver's carrier.
The questions in those interviews are not neutral. Describing yourself as fine, a normal reflex days after a crash, becomes a quotation used against a claim for injuries that developed later.
The right sequence
Complete treatment or reach maximum medical improvement, then value the case, then negotiate. Doing it in https://tjgneoseo.blob.core.windows.net/crash-claim-guide/georgia/uncategorized/when-to-call-a-lawyer-after-an-injury.html the other order means negotiating without knowing what you are negotiating about.
That is the correct approach for a Georgia car accident claim, and it is the main reason cases take longer than clients expect.
Gaps in treatment
One practical point that costs people money: gaps in treatment are used to argue you recovered. If you stop going because of cost, transportation or work, that reason should be documented rather than left as an unexplained absence in the records.
Carriers read treatment records as a narrative. Unexplained silence in that narrative gets interpreted in the way least favorable to you.
Flanagan Law, P.C.
5855 Sandy Springs Cir STE 301
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: (404) 480-4474
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