Utah Pedestrian Accident Attorneys

If you’ve been seriously injured in a crash and you were a pedestrian in the state of Utah, you want to look at hiring an attorney who is good in that area, who has experience in that area, who focuses on personal injury and who focuses on helping people who have been injured in that type of a situation. You also want to get somebody who’s a trial attorney because if that case needs to go to trial if you don’t get a fair offer from the insurance company, you want somebody who has prepared your case from the beginning to move towards trial.

If you’ve been involved in a pedestrian accident in the state of Utah, you’re probably going to get a call from the insurance company for the driver that hit you, and they’re going to want to take your recorded statement. You don’t have to give them a recorded statement without talking to an attorney. It’s a good idea to talk to an attorney before you give any kind of a statement. The reason for that is the insurance companies train their adjusters to ask questions to get the information that they need to drive down the value of your case from the very beginning. Don’t give them that opportunity.

In the state of Utah, all vehicles are required to carry personal injury protection or PIP. Sometimes it’s referred to as no-fault. If you’re injured as a pedestrian, the vehicle that struck you is required to pay you for those medicals, so they would pay up to the first $3,000 of medical bills from that car policy.

If you’re a pedestrian involved in a car crash in the state of Utah, it’s different than being in a two-car crash. One, you don’t have any of the protection that the other vehicle gives you, so frequently the injuries are much more severe. The laws are different because pedestrian laws are different than those for vehicles. It’s important that you have an attorney who has dealt with those issues, who knows the distinctions, and deals with it on a regular basis.

f part of your accident is your fault, you still may have a claim. Utah allows you to bring a claim against the other party, as long as you’re not more than 50% at fault. If you were crossing and the car was speeding, and there’s going to be an allocation between the two of you, but you still may have a claim.

If you’re hit as a pedestrian and the other vehicle flees the scene, you still have a claim in the state of Utah. It does create some tricky issues on identifying the vehicle and tracking down the proper insurance which can be a little complicated. We recommend that you contact an attorney and talk to them about the details of how to pursue such a claim.

If you’ve been injured as a pedestrian in the state of Utah, you probably want to know how long it’s going to take to get this case resolved. That’s a very tricky question to answer because it depends on a couple of things. One, how seriously are you injured? Two, how long are those injuries going to last? Depending on the specific facts of the case, how much the insurance company wants to fight or say it’s your fault, or deny responsibility for their driver. All of those factors go into determining how long a case will take to get resolved. The one thing that’s important is that you get an attorney who’s going to move the case forward and keep the case moving forward, whatever the process is.

When you’ve been injured as a pedestrian in the state of Utah, it’s difficult to figure out what the value of that claim is initially. You need to look at a lot of different items. You need to look at how much medical care you got, how well that medical care worked, if it got you back to the pre-accident condition, if you’re able to return to work, if you’re able to return to doing the things you love doing, and if you have any permanent limitations. All of those things have to be accounted for in determining the value of that case.