After a car accident caused by a careless driver, you are entitled to get compensation for injuries that occur because of the collision. The at-fault driver is expected to “make you whole,” or pay for your medical bills, lost income, pain and suffering, and emotional distress resulting from the accident and injuries.
In some cases, though, things become complicated. If you already had injuries before the accident, the at-fault driver’s insurance company may try to use that fact as a reason to deny you compensation for your damages.
You should not let them get away with that. You still have the right to get paid for the harm done to you, including exacerbation of your injuries. Berry Law has helped many clients in these types of cases to show how the crash made their injuries worse, so they can get justice, and we can do the same for you.
Give us a call today or contact us online to schedule your free consultation and learn more about how our compassionate Omaha car accident lawyers can help when you have pre-existing conditions affecting your auto accident case.
How to Get Compensated for a Car Crash When You Have Pre-Existing Injuries
Pre-existing injuries are any type of injury or medical condition that you had before the time you became involved in an auto accident. Common examples that crash victims have, which insurers may use to try to deny compensation, include:
- Disc injuries
- Degenerative joint disease
- Arthritis
- Chronic pain
- Traumatic brain injury symptoms like migraines
- Healed fracture
- Healed sprains
- Other prior soft-tissue damage
While insurers will often try to deny you compensation by claiming that these or other injuries already existed and weren’t caused by the crash, the reality is that the impact of an accident inevitably makes your health problems worse.
When the accident aggravates your injury, your ability to recover payment for the crash depends on your ability to show that you were made worse, that you have incurred medical bills because of it, and that you have suffered other losses due to the crash such as emotional damage, pain and suffering, and missed income from missing work.
If you have solid evidence that the accident made things worse, such as testimony from medical professionals and other experts, witness testimony, and documents showing costly treatment and missed work time, you should be able to get compensation for the aggravation of your injuries and the losses that resulted.
How a Car Accident Attorney at Berry Law Can Help You
Proving exacerbation or worsening of injuries is harder than demonstrating simply that your injuries resulted from an auto accident.
Berry Law has experience with these complex cases. We have worked with many clients who had serious medical issues that were made worse by an auto accident and we have recovered millions in damages for those clients by helping to put together a compelling claim showing how they were further harmed. We can help you show:
- The state of your condition before the crash
- How your condition was made worse
- How your new symptoms are affecting you
- The damages you should be entitled to because of the aggravation of your injuries
Our firm doesn’t charge legal fees unless we recover compensation for you, so contact a top-rated Omaha injury lawyer at Berry Law today to schedule your free consultation so we can get started working on your claim.
