Book Title:
How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim (Paperback)
by Joseph Matthews
Editorial Reviews:
Book Description
The book that helps you overcome the insurance companies’ Goliath.
Dealing with insurance companies and lawyers when filing a personal injury claim can feel like another accident is in the offing. But you can handle a claim yourself – and save hundreds or thousands of dollars in the process.
How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim shows you how to handle almost every accident situation, and guides you through the insurance claim process, step by step. Learn how to:
- protect your rights after an accident
- determine what your claim is worth
- handle a property-damage claim
- deal with uncooperative doctors, lawyers and insurance companies
- counter the special tactics insurance companies use
- prepare a claim for compensation
- negotiate a full and fair settlement
- stay on top of your case if you hire a lawyer
This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim provides your state’s most recent laws, small-claims court limits and Department of Insurance information.
From Library Journal
The industries that are supposed to help people when they are injured actually make receiving compensation more difficult, asserts the author, who is a lawyer. According to Matthews, the health, insurance, and legal communities, more concerned with profit than genuine assistance, make the essentially simple claim process long and confusing. His book sets out to help individuals cut through the red tape when filing and pursuing a personal injury claim. It clearly and thoroughly outlines the basic principles of liability, insurance coverage, the valuation of the claim, negotiating, and finalizing a settlement. The inclusion of tips on state-by-state variations in time limits on filing and monetary thresholds, plus advice on what to do if the accident is caused by a government agency, makes this an essential purchase for public libraries. – Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y. Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.
Midwest Book Review
How To Win Your Personal Injury Claim debunks the myth that successful personal injury cases must be handled by a lawyer. Attorney Joseph Matthews’ How To Win Your Personal Injury Claim provides a step-by-step “insider information” guide on how to navigate the claims process, calculate what a claim is worth, and negotiate a full and fair settlement. How To Win Your Personal Injury Claim tells how to protect your rights after an accident, gather evidence, prepare a claim, write a demand letter, avoid insurance company run-arounds, and obtain a full, fair settlement.
Jeffrey S. Klein, Legal View Columnist Los Angeles Times
Finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims… Consumers can confidently handle claims against insurance companies.
Library Journal
An essential purchase.
Seth Rosenfeld, Legal Affairs Reporter San Francisco Examiner
It reveals step-by-step how lawyers and insurance firms process personal injury claims, and the secret formulas used.
About the Author
Joseph Matthews has been an attorney since 1971, and from 1975 to 1977 he taught at the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. He has for many years been involved in matters relating to seniors, and is the author of Social Security, Medicare & Pensions and Beat the Nursing Home Trap, as well as How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim.