If you are in an accident with injuries major enough to require an ambulance or a trip to an ER, an accident serious enough for your car to sustain a major or total loss, then you will be at a disadvantage when attempting to negotiate directly with the insurance company. Your impulse might be to try to handle this on your own, but it is an impulse you should resist.
In my thirty years of practice, I have represented so many people who have been poorly treated by insurance companies in these very serious accident cases. They have dozens of tricks to avoid paying you or to underpay you.
You are likely a decent person, so you think the impulse of an adjuster will be to treat you well in your hour of need. But insurance adjusters are not your friends.
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