Bernstein & Maryanoff

Following a Miami personal injury accident, you may not know what assistance you need. You may be injured and need a doctors help, and you may not have medical coverage. You may have financial problems. It is a wise move to discuss your case with and hire an experienced Miami Personal injury Lawyer such as Jack Bernstein of Bernstein and Maryanoff who has worked on many thousands of personal injury claims for nearly thirty years. Our principal office is located in Miami where approximately thirty of our lawyers, paralegals, and staff work. We make hiring our personal injury firm easy by coming to your home, office or hospital.

Our office will charge you an attorney fee only if we win you money. If no money is recovered on your claim you don't owe us an attorney fee. The insurance company will hire licensed insurance adjusters to work on your Miami personal injury accident. You can call the Miami Personal Injury Office of Bernstein and Maryanoff now and talk to them at 1-800-429-4529 (4LAW) or 305-253-1000 and have a free consultation, or email them at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

THE INSURANCE ADJUSTER IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE

The insurance adjuster is primarily interested in saving money for their company. Because a Miami Personal Injury lawyer is the only professional licensed to represent someone injured in a Miami accident, an insurance adjuster cannot be your representative(neither can an insurance agent!). Many times the insurance company pays a local Miami Personal injury insurance investigator to handle your claim. The personal injury claim representative's role while handling a personal injury claim is to pay the least money possible. Insurance companies do not pay a penny more than forced to by Florida law. An insurance company is a corporation created to earn profit. They are concerned with earning the maximum money for the owners and not in finding a way to pay the maximum money to a Miami personal injury accident victim. Insurance companies conduct audits of settled files to be sure adjusters are not paying too much on Miami injury claims. Adjusters that save money for the insurance company can receive bonuses and promotions. The insurance adjuster will not find a Miami doctor to provide medical and chiropractor care on a lien. They will not give you a cash advance to pay your doctor bills or for your lost wages. Their goal is not to race to get your car fixed or to get you into medical treatment. They are not laying awake thinking of how to pay you the highest settlement possible.

DO NOT WORK ON YOUR PERSONAL INJURY CLAIM

It is best not to handle your own Miami personal injury accident without an experienced Miami Personal Injury lawyer to help you. It is wise to find an experienced Miami Personal injury lawyer who handles personal injury cases regularly with a lot of expertise in helping with Miami personal injury claims. By doing so you will raise the possibility that you'll recover the maximum money and increase the likelihood of getting the best medical care with the least hassle. Our case managers with our firm's personal injury lawyer oversight will assist you with car repair issues if your Miami personal injury accident needs that help. The law firm paralegals will assist you with legal forms and release documents which are read by an experienced Miami personal injury lawyer familiar with insurance company forms and Florida law on property damages. It is of great importance that release forms for damaged cars and property get signed only after a Miami personal injury lawyer studies them. When general release's are signed, they can erase your right to get money for the injury to your body. I have handled cases where insurance companies sent general release forms when paying for the car damages which would have wiped out the personal injury case if they were not altered to remove certain legal wording. If the wording is wrong, the Judge will be forced to dismiss the case if that happens.

It isn't a good move to try and resolve your own personal injury claim and often results in a bad outcome. I get a lot of calls from people who thought they would save money by not hiring a lawyer whose cases I must turn away because they delayed coming to me. They ran into problems working on their case without a personal injury lawyer. After the insurance company delays your hiring a Miami personal injury lawyer they often get the upper hand by taking your statement and delaying important medical care to heal you and document your injuries, both of which can hurt the case.  Don't rush to quickly settle your personal injury case after you have an accident. If you are in pain get medical care with a Miami Chiropractic office or Miami medical office with experience in helping people injured in Miami accidents. Heat packs, electrical stimulation and massage therapy will help you recover from the injuries you suffered. Some types of physical injuries worsen with the passage of time, instead of healing. Doctors and Chiropractors experienced in healing people with trauma type personal injuries will send you for CT scans and MRI exams to uncover personal injuries to the structures inside your body which cannot be viewed on x-rays such as a herniated or bulging disc in the neck and back. Those injuries can necessitate more complicated medical care like epidural injections and surgery to heal. Some nerve and brain injury may continue to get worse as time goes by. These are important considerations why you shouldn't hurry to settle your Miami Personal injury case. Once you settle your case, you cannot come back and say, “I had surgery from the injury”, or “I need more medical care now” and want to reopen my case, since the insurance company will not legally have to pay any money once the case is settled.

GET MEDICAL CARE NOW AND PAY FOR IT LATER

Doctors usually want payment for medical care before you enter the office. The receptionist usually asks for your insurance and credit card before the doctor will examine you. Paying up front for medical care is harder after being involved in a Miami personal injury accident when the injury prevents you from earning part or all of your paycheck. Accident victims usually have less money after being involved in an accident. A Miami personal injury lawyer with experience will sign the letter of protection also called an LOP. Your physician will then delay billing you until they receive medical insurance payments or until they get paid out of the settlement. Certain MRI centers, orthopedic doctors (bone specialists), and other medical specialties will provide the medical care and wait for the payment until the money comes through on your settlement. A good reason to locate an experienced Miami personal injury lawyer like Jack Bernstein is that he and the lawyers at his firm know to quickly sign the medical lien form which permits the medical providers to know they are getting paid at the time of settlement. The Florida Bar professional rules of Ethics which Miami personal injury lawyers must follow makes them pay medical bills owed to a doctor's office who has a signed letter of protection. When a lawyer delays or refuses to sign the letter of protection, the medical office normally doesn't want to give the medical care you need because they know that non lawyer patients are not bound by the Florida Bar Ethical Rules. Without a lawyer signing the protection letter, the medical office would have to hire a lawyer to file suit in court against you, get a judgment, and then try to collect the money. Doctors give medical help and don't like getting into lawsuits to get paid. Normally they will provide the medical tests and medical care only if an experienced and trusted Miami personal injury lawyer like Jack Bernstein, who has been a personal injury lawyer for more than 28 years, or one of the personal injury lawyers at his office is helping you with your case.

FUNDING LOANS WITH A PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER

A loan company may lend money to someone involved in a Miami personal injury accident if they have a lawyer helping them with their personal injury case who agrees to sign a letter of acknowledgment that the money gets paid back at the time of settlement. The professional ethics rules which lawyers in Florida must follow makes them pay a loan directly from their trust account when the settlement money is paid out. If a lawyer refuses to agree to honor payment of the money out of the settlement the Loan Company would need to hire a lawyer, file suit against you in court, get a judgment and try to collect. They do not take that risk and will not lend you the money without a personal injury lawyer.

Another good reason to hire a Miami personal injury lawyer to help with your Miami personal injury accident case is to counteract the insurance company team. They have a team with an adjuster, supervisor, and manager that work together, and agree on the lowest money settlement they can get you to accept. Their team will talk about you not having a Miami Personal injury lawyer and they will know you will not file a lawsuit in the Miami Dade11^th Judicial Circuit Court. They will lower the amount they'd offer if a local Miami personal injury lawyer was guiding your case. The Insurance company team of representatives knows that it takes a personal injury lawyer with experience to file a case in the Miami Courthouse. They are aware that an accident victim who is not familiar with local rules of the Miami Courthouse and Florida Rules of procedure and evidence will settle for much less money than if an experienced Miami Personal injury Lawyer is leading the battle. If you are from a state other than Florida, don't allow a lawyer licensed only in your state handle your personal injury case. The insurance adjuster will strongly consider that your lawyer will possibly settle for less money for your Miami personal injury case since he or she cannot file a lawsuit in the Miami Dade Court if the case is not settled without going to court.

MIAMI PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS FIGHT FOR YOU

Probabilities are that you will be paid more money if you hire an experienced Miami personal injury lawyer to help with your injury case. An Experienced personal injury lawyer like Jack Bernstein and the lawyers on his staff add a lot of value to the case which typically results in multiples of the money you can get on your own, and without the potential problems that may result without a lawyer. I assist with most of the personal injury settlements with the lawyers at our office and assist with negotiation of most cases. I have worked on tens of thousands of personal injury cases and have a lot of experience in the value a personal injury case is worth to avoid allowing it to settle for too little. I know the law well and the best strategy to get you the most money. Typically a Miami personal injury lawyer with experience will win you enough money to adequately pay for the attorney fees and in the end get you more money than you would receive on your own. Your Miami personal injury case is worked on under a contingency contract which means you pay an attorney fee only if we win you money for your Miami accident claim.

It is helps to hire a Miami personal injury lawyer with experience in handling Miami Personal injury accident cases in Miami for numerous important reasons. Call the Miami Personal Injury law firm of Bernstein and Maryanoff now to talk to them at 1-800-429-4529 (4LAW) or 305-253-1000. You can email too and they will reply if on line right away or soon afterwards to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it