Personal Injury

Recovery from a personal injury requires the complex coordination of medical, financial and legal issues.  The obvious goal is to recover your physical and emotional health as much and as quickly as possible.  However, no recovery is complete without recovery from financial losses, both short and long-term.  Taking legal steps against the wrongdoer cannot erase the injury, but is the best method known to properly compensate an injured victim for a wrong committed against her or him.

Deborah L. Barron has 29 years of experience assisting clients who have suffered from traumatic injuries, primarily those resulting from motor vehicle accidents.  After visiting your physician, it is strongly advised that you contact Deborah L. Barron as soon as you can manage to do so.  The earlier that you obtain this legal advice, the more likely it is that Deborah L. Barron can provide the information you require in your particular circumstances to negotiate the hurdles you will encounter and achieve the best possible result. 

Most of Deborah L. Barron’s personal injury settlements are achieved through negotiations with the wrongdoer’s insurance company, without requiring you to go to Court.  If your personal injury case is adjudged by Deborah L. Barron as extremely likely to result in a financial recovery from the wrongdoer’s insurance company, Deborah will in most cases allow you to sign her Contingency Fee Agreement.  This will allow you to pay Deborah L. Barron for her time when you obtain your final settlement, rather than having to pay Deborah by the hour, from the outset, as is the case in other types of legal cases.  Your payment for Deborah’s time will be an agreed-upon percentage of the recovery.

After suffering an injury, Deborah L. Barron strongly recommends that you:

1. IMMEDIATELY, attend at a hospital emergency department or see your family physician to receive treatment and medical substantiation for your potential claim.
   
   
2. Photograph the accident location, your vehicle and any physical evidence of your injuries, such as bruises.
   
   
3. At the scene of the accident, obtain all of the wrongdoer’s contact and insurance information.  Also, obtain names, addresses and telephone numbers of witnesses.
   
   
4. Records are extremely important.  Therefore, begin recording, by yourself or with help, a “pain diary” in a permanent notebook, on a daily basis (there will be fewer entries as time goes on).  Start saving your journal, photographs, your receipts for expenses, copies of prescriptions, employer’s, doctor’s and therapist’s notes.  Keep all of these in a safe place.
   
   
5. Do not discuss your injuries with or sign any documents for the wrongdoer’s insurance adjuster, as the adjuster will record everything that you say and the adjuster’s goal is for you to obtain no settlement or as low a settlement as possible. 
   
   
6. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, email or call to book an appointment to obtain legal advice from Deborah L. Barron regarding your potential claims, the important steps to take to assure your best possible settlement and the time limits that may apply.  Deborah L. Barron will accommodate you with an appointment on an expeditious basis.  If possible, complete the “Accident Interview Form” included with the “Forms” on www.deborahbarronlaw.com prior to your first appointment and bring the Accident Interview Form with you.  Also bring the items referred to in points 2), 3) and 4) above.