As most of you know, I deal with insurance claims litigation for a living, i.e. suing third party motorists who have caused an accident involving my client.
I will gladly help out any zoner who has an accident, from simple advice to running an actual claim for them, injuries most welcome lol.
But by the time I or any other solicitor, insurer or claims manager comany have become involved, often vital evidence that would assist your case has disappeared. So the purpose of this post is not to advertise my services, but to help you out before the legal bods or insures become involved.
The golden rule with any claim is Evidence Evidence Evidence. It is not what you know, but what you can prove.
To succeed with any claim, you have to establish that "on the balance of probabilities, the accident was caused by negligence of the other party". So this is not like in the criminal courts where the prosecution has to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that somebody committed a crime with sufficient mental capacity, which is a high burden of proof and why many crims walk from court, because there is doubt in the mind of the jury or magistrates.
With civil cases, the burden of proof is merely "on the balance of probabilities", in other words if the evidence suggests more than not that an incident happened as you allege, odds are you will succeed.
Now what I am getting onto here is about gathering evidence as soon as the event happens.
We all have mobile phones these days and most if not all of these have a camera on them. This frankly is the most vital piece of kit you could have with you after an accident. Assuming you are able to get out of your car after a smash, then you need to do the following:
Accident Advice Help to Zoners?
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