Thousands of people suffer various car accident injuries on Maryland roads yearly, including bodily injury. These injuries leave their victims in very terrible physical and psychological states. Luckily for some people, their auto crash injuries are light and easy to treat. However, many people experience extensive harm from accidents and require expensive medical care.

Whether your injuries were minor or severe, you can recover compensation for them. To receive damages, you will have to prove that the harm you sustained was from the accident. Therefore, it is essential to retain a Maryland car accident lawyer‘s services. Without a lawyer, your chances of recovering any compensation in Maryland are very slim because of the technical nature of proving your claim.

What Are Bodily Injuries?

Many people confuse bodily injuries for personal injuries, but they are not the same. If you don’t understand the difference between the two concepts, you may make mistakes while filing a compensation claim. A personal injury is a broad concept that covers any harm suffered during an accident.

Personal injuries include all injuries except damage to physical properties. Conversely, bodily injuries are more specific. The term refers to all injuries, especially wounds, a person suffers on their body because of another person’s actions in an accident.

What Damages Can You Recover in a Bodily Injury Suit?

Since bodily injuries refer to harm done to a person’s body, such a person will require medical attention to treat their injuries. If you treat your injuries from a car accident, you can recover the cost from the at-fault party. This would include past, present, and future medical expenses, even charges of unique treatments. Therefore, medical expenses are the direct damages recoverable in a bodily injury claim.

Other types of compensation you can recover include:

• Legal fees
• Cost of medical equipment
• Lost earnings

How To Claim Bodily Injury Following a Car Accident 

If you suffer bodily injuries in a car accident, you can claim damages from the at-fault party. You can file a lawsuit in court or settle with the other party’s insurer. Either way, the crux of a bodily injury claim is proving that your injuries resulted from the car accident.

To establish this fact, you will require medical and physical evidence. Therefore, it would help to follow these three steps if you intend to make a bodily injury claim:

• Get Medical Attention

If you have been in a car accident, the first thing to do is seek medical care and treat your wounds. Don’t put this off for anything. Even if you feel fine, it would be best to get professional help still. If you’re unable to get help by yourself, you can call people around to help you.

A doctor‘s visit also provides an immediate and direct link from your injuries to the accident. This is the primary medical evidence for your bodily injury claim. If you don’t get immediate help, the insurance adjuster may claim that your wounds aren’t that serious. They may then deny your request or offer a reduced settlement.

• Get Some Physical Evidence

Physical evidence of your injuries can also boost your case. Physical evidence will include pictures and videos of the crash and the injuries you sustained. However, your injuries’ severity may prevent you from gathering any physical evidence. You can start compiling the evidence as soon as your health permits in such cases.

• Document Your Medical History

An insurance adjuster will certainly be interested in your case’s strength and whether you undertook any medical treatment. It will help if you document your medical history from your accident date to prove both points. You can keep a car accident diary for this purpose.

It would be best to ask your medical caregivers to record their treatments and the costs from the onset. It would also help if you kept notes and receipts on the following:

• Your injury date
• Nature of the accident
• Medical bills, including the cost of medical equipment (past and present)
• Doctor’s report and length of treatment
• Any drugs taken
• Results and proof of any tests conducted on you
• Proof of disability (if any)

Pinder Plotkin Lawyers Can Win Your Injury Claim

If you have suffered any injuries in a car accident, you can file a compensation claim against the at-fault party. Your wounds from the accident already reduced your mobility, so you cannot claim yourself. Furthermore, you can’t wait until you recover because the delay can affect your case.

Therefore, it would be best to hire a Maryland car accident lawyer. Our lawyers at Pinder Plotkin have all the experience needed to win any injury claim. If you call us today, we can get you the compensation you deserve.