The Potential Risks of Waiting to Get Treatment
When you’re able to walk away from a car, truck, or motorcycle accident, you can feel like you’ve dodged a bullet. As a consequence, you may believe that it’s unnecessary or unimportant to seek medical attention, unless you start to notice physical changes. It’s essential, though, even if you think you’ve come away unscathed, to seek medical care as soon as possible, whether in a hospital emergency room, an urgent care facility, or the offices of your primary care physician.
Some Injuries Take Time To Develop
Certain types of trauma—broken bones, cuts, and sprains, for example—are obvious. Often, though, some of the most debilitating injuries take time to appear:
- In the aftermath of an accident, your body may produce adrenaline, which can mask the early discomfort associated with many types of injuries.
- One of your body’s primary responses to injury or trauma is inflammation or swelling, but that can also take time to appear.
Why Waiting Can Jeopardize Your Legal Rights
When you’ve been hurt in a motor vehicle accident because of someone else’s negligence, you have the right to file a personal injury lawsuit to recover for your losses. To prove your case, though, you’ll have to show that the defendant’s actions caused your injuries. If you seek immediate medical attention after a crash, you’ll have documented evidence of the injuries you suffered, making it much easier to establish that the other driver caused those injuries. However, the longer you wait, the greater the risk that you’ll be involved in some other type of accident—a slip and fall at home, for example—and that could make it more difficult to establish that the crash caused your injuries.
Contact the Law Offices of David J. Karbasian, PC
Send us an email today, or call us at 856-600-HURT to schedule an appointment to discuss your personal injury claim. Evening and weekend consultations are available upon request. We can come to your home or the hospital to meet with you, if necessary.
We handle all personal injury claims, including motor vehicle accident lawsuits, on a contingent fee basis. You will not incur any legal fees unless we recover monetary compensation for your losses.
