A lot of the time people don’t want to come across as whiners. They don’t want to be seen as complaining about every little thing that’s going on, but in the case of a motor vehicle collision, it could be very beneficial to fully express to your doctors everything that’s going on with you.

I had a client who was visiting an apartment complex, and one of the tenant’s dogs better on the arm. Now, the dog in question had a pretty serious past. It had attacked several of the other tenants, as well as a couple of other animals, and the landlord who ran the unit was aware of this. They knew of the dog’s history, and yet they still allowed the tenant to keep the dog on the premises. Now, by doing that, they have potentially opened themselves up to being liable for the injuries to the person as well, and in that particular case, we were able to help get our client compensation for her injuries at the apartment complex.

Without the police there, there’s no ref calling balls strikes, anything like that. It was kind of he said, she said scenario.

Most of the time, you’re probably not going to get too many people to stop. It’s one of the unfortunate realities nowadays. But if you are able to get someone who is stopping at the scene, checking to see if people are all right, just ask them, “Hey, would you mind if I get a brief statement from you?”