In order to answer this question, keep this important concept in mind: Liability insurance is purchased to protect your assets. The more assets you have, then the more liability insurance you should purchase. Likewise, everyone should consider their own specific financial circumstances when deciding how much car insurance to purchase. When you buy auto insurance, your […]
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Let’s address the top 10 myths of automobile liability insurance and how they relate to car accident claims. As a Dallas car accident attorney, I come across these issue quite frequently. This post is limited, however, to auto liability insurance and is not intended to address other types of insurance such as comprehensive and collision
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As a car accident attorney, I am often asked about what to do if you are involved in an auto accident with an uninsured motorist or an under-insured motorist. Both types of claims are governed by the uninsured motorist (“UM”) provision of your auto insurance policy and are generally treated the same. The main difference is that an
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As a Dallas / Fort Worth car accident lawyer, I have had the issue of excluded drivers come up all the time. Sometimes, insurance companies issue auto policies and have drivers who are excluded from coverage if they happen to drive the vehicle and are involved in an accident. the most common reason an insurance
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Liability Coverage In Texas, each auto insurance policy is required to have a minimum amount of liability coverage. This coverage protects the driver against any claims where the driver is found to be at-fault in a car accident. These claims can be for property damage done to another person’s vehicle or property, as well as
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In Texas, every motor vehicle is required to carry a minimum amount of liability insurance in the event of an accident causing an injury, death or property damage. But the reality is that not everybody carries liability insurance. Likewise, there is something you can do to protect yourself in the event you are involved in
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NO! NO! NO! When I first started practicing personal injury litigation in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, recorded statements were the “norm.” I was part of the first wave of attorneys that routinely rejected the practice of allowing recorded statements because I saw how they were unfairly used to sabotage my clients’ claims. If you
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In the past two sections, I discussed how your car accident claim is handled prior to any lawsuit being filed. In this final section, I will discuss how your case is handled when a lawsuit is filed. Once you and your lawyer decide that a lawsuit is necessary, your lawyer will explain to you that the lawsuit must
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In Part I, we discussed the role an automobile liability insurance company plays during the investigative stage of your claim. Now, we will discuss the settlement stage of your claim. Remember, in Part I, we established that the insurance company only has a duty to protect their driver. If the adjuster believes that the other driver
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In the next three parts, I intend to illuminate the myths about how automobile liability insurance (or any other type of liability insurance for that matter) really operates in connection with a car accident claim. The first part will discuss the initial investigative stages of the claims process. The second part will cover the role
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