3 Reasons Hiring the Wrong Attorney Can Cost Your Drunk Driving Case

What to Expect When Beginning Your Drunk Driving Case

The first step in starting your case against a negligent drunk driver is to seek an attorney who specializes in helping victims of drunk driving crashes. Once you have a personable and professional lawyer on your side the following steps will help you and your attorney bring the person to justice who hit you.

• Your Lawyer Will Promptly Start an Investigation. Once you have established legal representation, expect that your attorney will begin the investigation process almost immediately. During the investigation steps, you will be asked to provide any evidence, such as photos, clothing, property, statements, police reports, and more that may benefit you in your case.Your attorney will also have the ability to access important pieces of evidence to help your investigation, such as field sobriety test results, videos the police recorded from the night of the accident, statements from witnesses at the scene of the crash, and more. All of this vital evidence collected during the investigation will shape how your attorney will present your case.
• Your Attorney Should Handle Important Aspects of your Civil Case. Drunk driving crash cases are more complicated than standard car accident cases because often both a civil case and a criminal case will be going at the same time.
• Your Lawyer will Handle all Legal Aspects Related to your Civil Case. During the civil case, it will be determined how much you will receive in compensation for your actual damages and punitive damages. Even though the civil case may use aspects from the criminal case, the two cases operate independently from each other.
• The State Prosecutor will bring Criminal Proceedings. The state will assign a prosecutor to the criminal case. The prosecutor is the person who will represent the state in bringing charges against the drunk driver for violating the criminal law, by driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.The result of the criminal case does not determine the results of your civil case, which is held in a different court. Although some of the same pieces of evidence may be shown in both cases, the way the evidence is delivered may be different.

In a civil case, you need to be aware of the full nature and extent of your injuries.

It’s pivotal you learn the full scope and nature of your injuries before finalizing the civil case. Often, insurance adjusters will try and get you to settle before you know the complete nature of your injuries. This is because they do not want to have to pay you the full value of your case.

It is possible for injuries to show weeks or even months after a car crash.

By waiting until to settle your civil case, you can be certain that you account for all injuries in your injury settlement. This means you have a better opportunity to achieve the maximum compensation possible in your case. Keep in mind; all states have a statute of limitations, and your case needs to be filed before that statute of limitations runs out, or your claim will be depleted.

Throughout your case, you should have a personal injury attorney available to you to ensure your rights are protected, and you gain the maximum compensation deserved after being hit by a drunk driver.

Contact the Brown Firm, our personal injury lawyers are experienced in representing injured car accident victims due to the negligence of drunk drivers in Georgia.

We offer free consultations and work off a contingency basis; meaning we don’t collect any fees unless our clients are awarded a favorable settlement.

If you are searching for a professional and respected Georgia Car Accident Injury Lawyer, call the Brown Firm today 912-200-9755  

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