What is the name of your state? Ohio
My 17 year old son was involved in a car accident back in March 2007. He was coming home from school and it had started to snow, the roads were getting slick, there was a pickup truck in front of him and he watched it go off the road and into the ditch. My son then pulled off the side of the road turned his four ways on, got out of his car to make sure that the woman was okay, she was and he decided to wait with her until the police arrived making sure she was okay. My son was standing in front of his car when another car smashed into the rear end of his car causing my son to fly up into the air bounce off the hood of his car and land in the ditch. The police man on the scene was not very helpful and very arrogant, he was a juvenile office only dispatched to help out and did not have knowledge of how to handle an accident scene? My son was taken to the hospital in the ambulance and treated as a trauma victim. He suffered a severe sprain of his ankle, which ballooned for the next several weeks and was also infected from not being properly treated. He also had to go to therapy for this leg and was on crutches for over a month. He missed a month of school and a month of work. My total medical bills and expenses were around $9,000. His car was totaled. The kid that hit my son was not sited for various reasons the main reason being that the cop on the scene knew him.
My son's treatment ended in May and I have just received an offer from the insurance adjuster of $15,000 minus the $2,000 due back to the insurance company leaving me $13,000 and I still have $3,000 worth of bills that I have already paid. I feel that this offer was like a slap in my face. How do I go about making the adjuster realize that this is an unfair amount and how do I go about getting what it is worth? Any advice would be helpful, I have all the pictures from the scene of the accident, a diary that I kept from every day that I took care of him, and all the medical bills. Thank you in advance for any help or advice you can give.
Kim
My 17 year old son was involved in a car accident back in March 2007. He was coming home from school and it had started to snow, the roads were getting slick, there was a pickup truck in front of him and he watched it go off the road and into the ditch. My son then pulled off the side of the road turned his four ways on, got out of his car to make sure that the woman was okay, she was and he decided to wait with her until the police arrived making sure she was okay. My son was standing in front of his car when another car smashed into the rear end of his car causing my son to fly up into the air bounce off the hood of his car and land in the ditch. The police man on the scene was not very helpful and very arrogant, he was a juvenile office only dispatched to help out and did not have knowledge of how to handle an accident scene? My son was taken to the hospital in the ambulance and treated as a trauma victim. He suffered a severe sprain of his ankle, which ballooned for the next several weeks and was also infected from not being properly treated. He also had to go to therapy for this leg and was on crutches for over a month. He missed a month of school and a month of work. My total medical bills and expenses were around $9,000. His car was totaled. The kid that hit my son was not sited for various reasons the main reason being that the cop on the scene knew him.
My son's treatment ended in May and I have just received an offer from the insurance adjuster of $15,000 minus the $2,000 due back to the insurance company leaving me $13,000 and I still have $3,000 worth of bills that I have already paid. I feel that this offer was like a slap in my face. How do I go about making the adjuster realize that this is an unfair amount and how do I go about getting what it is worth? Any advice would be helpful, I have all the pictures from the scene of the accident, a diary that I kept from every day that I took care of him, and all the medical bills. Thank you in advance for any help or advice you can give.
Kim