How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim - 12th Edition by Joseph Matthews (Paperback)

About the Book

The best all-in-one guide to handling your own injury claim or lawsuit after an accident. Everything you need to navigate the claims process, deal with insurance adjusters, get the most out of your claim, and get on with your life.

Book Synopsis

After an injury: Settle your claim the right way

When you've been hurt in an accident, dealing with insurance companies and their lawyers can feel daunting. But with the right guide, you can handle a claim yourself--and save thousands of dollars.

How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim leads you through the insurance claim process, step by step. After almost any kind of accident, from a car crash to a slip and fall, you'll learn how to:

• figure out how much your injury claim is worth


• gather the right evidence


• prepare an effective demand letter


• respond to common insurance company tactics


• negotiate a fair settlement, and


• file a small claims lawsuit.

This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim includes the latest state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits.

Review Quotes

"Matthews, an attorney and author, offers a guide to winning a personal injury claim for automobile, cycle, or pedestrian accidents; slip or trip and fall accidents; home accidents; and others. It covers handling a personal injury claim oneself and when to hire a lawyer, how legal responsibility is determined, initial steps in settling a claim, understanding insurance coverage, how insurance adjusters decide how much a claim for injuries is worth, processing the claim, property damage claims, negotiating a settlement, finalizing it, and working with a lawyer, arbitration, and taking a case to court. This edition has been updated to include recent state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView

"Reveals step-by-step how lawyers and insurance firms process personal injury claims, and the secret formulas used to pocket a hefty share of your settlement." San Francisco Examiner

"Finally a book that takes the mystery out of personal injury claims...consumers can confidently handle claims against insurance companies and save the cost of legal fees." Los Angeles Times

"This completely updated edition of How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim includes the latest state-by-state lawsuit filing deadlines and small claims court limits. Readers don't need any special training to handle most injury claims just patience, perseverance, and some basic information about how the insurance claims process works. According to Matthews, it usually doesn't matter whether they were partly at fault for an accident as long as the accident was not mostly their fault. They can use this book if they have been injured or their vehicle or other property has been damaged in any sort of accident that occurred when they weren't at work. Even if they were injured on the job, if someone other than their employer or a coworker might be partly to blame, they can use this book to seek compensation.

The book explains what to do if the insurance company refuses to negotiate fairly. Readers learn to handle nearly any type of accident situation, and to navigate most of the tricky parts of the insurance claims process. The book walks them through all the different parts of the process, with samples and examples of everything they might need to do. If the claim is too complicated for them to handle, they learn that from How to Win Your Personal Injury Claim, too. And the book explains how to work with an attorney if it comes to that." SirReadaLot.org