When you're badly injured, the last thing you want to think about is filling out paperwork, searching for an attorney, or trying to gather evidence. Yet, these steps are necessary if you want to collect the compensation you deserve due to someone else's negligence. The more you know about personal injury cases and hiring an attorney, the less stressful this time will be.
We've created this website to offer basic personal injury law advice for anyone who has been injured or who may become injured in the future. Keep in mind that if you've been injured in a car accident, due to medical neglect, or even by slipping in someone else's parking lot, your case qualifies a personal injury case — and thus you'll find our collection of articles relevant.
If you have been involved in a slip-and-fall accident, you might have decided to hire a slip-and-fall attorney. After all, as you might already know, working with one of these attorneys is a critical step to take if you want to help ensure that your case is successful. In addition to hiring an attorney, you should also make sure that you provide your attorney with evidence about your case. These are a few tips that can help you out when you are gathering up this evidence.
1. Start as Soon as Possible
Do not wait until the last minute to start gathering up evidence for your slip-and-fall accident case. It might take longer than you think to gather up all of the evidence, so you shouldn't wait until the last minute to get started. For example, you might want to get a police report from your local police department, and it might take the police department a little while to gather everything up. You might need to get documentation from your doctor; since he or she is probably busy, be aware that it might take a little bit of time before you can get this documentation.
2. Ask Your Attorney for Guidance
If you aren't sure of what type of evidence you should be gathering, schedule an appointment to sit down with your attorney. Alternatively, you could call his or her office or send an email to ask for guidance. Your attorney or the other staff at the law firm should be able to provide you with some guidance. You might also have questions about how you can acquire certain evidence that your attorney's office has asked for, or you could be curious about how far your attorney's office has come along with gathering evidence that they are supposed to be gathering for you. Again, don't be nervous about calling and asking someone from your attorney's office for answers to these questions.
3. Provide Anything You Think Might Be Relevant
It is typically better to provide too much evidence for your slip-and-fall case rather than not enough. Little things that you might not be important, such as diary entries that detail the healing process after the injury or the torn clothing that you might have been wearing when the accident occurred, might actually be more helpful than you think. If you think something could be relevant to your case, it doesn't hurt to turn it in to your attorney, just in case.