Taking the First Pedestrian Accident Settlement Offer

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On a pedestrian injury claim in Florida, it is usually never a good idea to take the insurance company’s first offer. Insurance companies work to move files which means they simply want to move your file, get it off of their desk, and get the case resolved so they can go about handling the other files that they have. What’s important for you is maximizing the value of your case to seek full justice for you, the client. More often than not, the initial offer from an insurance company in a pedestrian accident injury case is not going to be the best offer. The initial offer typically comes at a point in time when all the pieces haven’t been put together yet. Your medical care and treatment may still be ongoing. Those are things we want to make sure we document and get a full view of before we ever even consider accepting an offer from an insurance company.

At Goldstein Buckley Cechman, Rice & Purtz, we work to put together the case with you in order to fully document and maximize not only your injuries but also your damages to talk about what this is going to mean for you not only today and tomorrow but for the remainder of your years. When we go about that process with you, it does take some time, but that time generally results in more and better offers from the insurance company as we seek to provide them with a full picture instead of them simply trying to close your file and move you out of their way.