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    How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim

    By Joseph Matthews

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    About this ebook

    After your injury: Settle your claim the right way

    When you’ve been hurt in an accident, dealing with insurance companies and lawyers can feel exhausting. But armed with the right information, you can handle a claim yourself—and save many thousands of dollars in the process.

    How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim shows you how to handle almost any 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
  • deal with uncooperative doctors 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, including small claims court limits and lawsuit filing deadlines.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNOLO
    Release dateMay 29, 2015
    ISBN9781413321517
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    How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim
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    Joseph Matthews

    Joseph Matthews is the author of the novels The Blast and Everyone Has Their Reasons, the story collection The Lawyer Who Blew Up His Desk, and the post-9/11 political analysis Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (with I. Boal, T.J. Clark & M. Watts). He lives in San Francisco, CA.

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