Steps You Should Take to Preserve Your Claim
First and foremost, make sure the vehicle is preserved. While it is normal to grieve during a loss of a family member or serious injury, if the vehicle is destroyed or lost by the family or insurance company, sometimes it is impossible to prove a products liability case. Some judges will not allow an injured victim or the family of a lost loved one to pursue their lawsuit if they have failed to act to make sure the vehicle is not destroyed or lost.
The best way to accomplish this is to contact a lawyer experienced in rollover accidents and roof crush. An experienced lawyer can assist you or your family in gathering and preserving evidence to protect your legal rights.
The most important thing is preserving the vehicle. We cannot express to you and your family how important preservation of this piece of evidence is to a potential rollover or roof crush lawsuit. Our attorneys are available to assist in any means necessary to protect the vehicle from destruction. Contact us for more information.
Other must dos in a rollover roof crush case are as follows:
- Perform an immediate site inspection by a qualified accident investigator/accident reconstruction engineer. This is important because skid marks, roll marks, gouge marks and other important pieces of evidence on and off the roadway may disappear in days or weeks after a rollover accident or a vehicle roof crush wreck.
- Gather statements from witnesses, vehicle occupants, law enforcement individuals, EMS personnel and other first responders.
- Obtain a biomechanical or biomedical engineer to determine what part of the vehicle caused the injury or death.
- Pull together the victim's treating physicians and other hired experts such as life care planners to ensure the victim gets the care they need after the lawsuit is resolved.
Your attorney can help you gather these different aspects while building your case and walk you through the entire process to achieve maximum compensation.
Contact Miller Weisbrod
If you believe that you have been injured in a rollover or roof collapse related accident, contact Miller Weisbrod, LLP, for a free case assessment.
