Information and Insight for Injured Iowans

You deserve compensation for your car accident injuries and as Cedar Rapids, Iowa, personal injury attorneys, we want to make sure you do. After a car accident, the other driver’s insurance company will contact you to collect information regarding the crash.  However, the insurance company is not serving to protect your best interests and may sometimes try to get you to say something that will harm your claim.

     Giving a recorded statement is not likely to make the other driver’s insurance company pay your medical bills any sooner. Not only is there usually any benefit to giving a recorded statement to an insurance company on your own but there is also a serious risk. Insurance company representatives are professionals trained to take recorded statements that can be used against you in court. In our experience, they ask specific questions that may result in damaging admissions from you that will reduce the value of your personal injury claim. If the other driver’s insurance company calls you after a car accident, we recommend that you politely tell them that you will be happy to speak to them – after you speak to your attorney.  Our firm protects our clients from the danger of recorded statements by only allowing them to be taken when one of our attorneys is present.

To protect yourself against other unfair tactics insurance companies may use, go to Iowa Car Accident Facts to download a free 35-page guide.