You don’t have to recover from a serious car accident on your own. You have every right to reach out to a Washington, D.C., car accident lawyer for legal support. An experienced attorney can help you hold the right people financially responsible for your recovery, ensuring that you can retake control of your life despite your losses.
Our Washington, D.C. personal injury lawyers believe that everyone has the right to hold negligent drivers and other parties accountable for the losses they face on the road. Kitchel Law has stood by that sentiment since the firm opened.
With nearly three decades of combined experience, you can count on us to take your losses seriously while making your recovery as straightforward as possible.
You might come to Kitchel Law as a client, but you’ll leave a friend. You can learn more about our available services during a free legal consultation. Your initial consultation and all others come free of charge.
Discuss Your Options for Recovering With a Washington, D.C., Car Accident Lawyer
Working with an attorney doesn’t lock you into any form of long-term legal action. We take pride in supporting our clients’ unique approaches to their own recoveries.
In other words, you get to determine what your end goals for recovering from a car accident look like. After that, our team will use our hard-earned experience to help you achieve those ambitions.
You can specifically rely on our legal advice while:
Filing an Insurance Claim With an Insurance Company
Washington, D.C., requires all drivers, commercial or private, to invest in car insurance. Parties found driving on the road without insurance coverage can face criminal charges, fines, and the revocation of their licenses.
This means there’s a good chance the person responsible for your auto accident has insurance coverage, and that you can file a claim for damages. However, most insurance companies will go to extreme lengths to deny you the support you deserve. That’s why we recommend that you work with our attorneys to negotiate with insurance adjusters.
Our support can help you make the true value of your losses known to insurance claims adjusters and their affiliated providers. We can prevent insurance claims adjusters from misrepresenting your losses and slowing down your recovery. As a result, we can make it easier for you to argue for damages when filing your insurance claim.
Pursuing a Personal Injury Lawsuit
If you can’t make your needs known to an insurance provider, or if the party responsible for your losses doesn’t have reasonable insurance coverage, you have the right to file a personal injury claim demanding car accident damages. Filing a personal injury claim doesn’t obligate you to go to civil court after an accident.
Rather, filing a car accident claim allows you to summon a liable party for settlement negotiations. You can use these negotiations as an opportunity to highlight your losses and request maximum compensation in response to a liable party’s negligence.
However, most at-fault parties will challenge your attempts to ask them for financial support. That’s where our Washington, D.C., car accident attorneys come into play.
We keep negotiations centered on your right to recover and can help you take your fight for support to court should a liable party refuse to acknowledge your losses.
We Handle a Wide Range of Car Accident Cases
Our legal team doesn’t shy away from complicated car accident cases for survivors. We understand that construction, environmental hazards, and even the weather can impact your safety on the road.
That’s why, when you work with our team, you have the opportunity to connect with our:
- Washington, D.C., T-bone accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., traffic accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., head-on collision lawyers
- Washington, D.C., aggressive driving accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., road rage accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., sideswipe lawyers
- Washington, D.C., hit-and-run accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., rollover accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., rear-end collision lawyers
- Washington, D.C., distracted driving accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., drunk driving accident lawyers
- Washington, D.C., rideshare accidents
- Washington, D.C., commercial vehicle accident lawyers
If you lose someone in a fatal accident, you can ask our Washington, D.C., auto accident attorneys to explore your right to a wrongful death case on behalf of the loved one you lost.
These accident lawsuits give you the right to ask for types of damages based on a loved one’s lost income and funeral expenses, as well as your grief.
If you go to court, you may even receive punitive damages. We will not let your financial losses go unaddressed, and we won’t let liable parties minimize your losses with a quick settlement.
Compensation You Can Recover
No matter what tools you use to pursue car accident damages, you need to ask for a fair settlement that fully encompasses the value of your losses. This means that you need to account for the value of the economic and non-economic expenses you incurred as a result of someone else’s negligence.
The losses an auto accident lawyer can include in your request for fair compensation may include:
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of enjoyment
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Reduced quality of life
- Emergency medical expenses, including ambulance fees
- Prolonged medical care and medical costs associated with treatments like physical therapy and upcoming surgeries
- Lost wages or lost benefits
- Property damage and essential repairs
If you lost a loved one in a fatal car accident, you may additionally have the right to ask a liable party to cover your loved one’s lost income, funeral expenses, and mortuary services. We can also include your loss of consortium and loss of companionship in your request for support.
Evidence to Make Your Case
When asking for a fair settlement after a serious car accident, you need to have evidence tying your losses back to a liable party’s negligence. Fortunately, our car accident lawyers in Washington, D.C., have a team of professional investigators who can unearth relevant data like:
- Photos from before and after the accident
- Video footage of the accident
- Witness statements
- Electronic evidence, as relevant
- Physical debris
- Environmental damage
- Expert witness statements, including input from emergency responders
- A police report and other paperwork going into detail about the nature of your accident
- Medical records elaborating on your injuries
Once our personal injury attorneys have this data on hand, we can compile it into a concrete narrative of negligence that elaborates on your right to fair compensation.
Know Your Case’s Statute of Limitations
Washington, D.C.’s personal injury statute of limitations (D.C. Code § 12-301(a)(8)) requires you to file a legal claim against a liable driver or affiliated parties within three years of your accident. You need to stay on top of your case’s statute of limitations if you want to retain your right to hold someone else financially responsible for your recovery.
If you can’t file your car accident claim within Washington, D.C.’s personal injury statute of limitations, you risk losing your right to pursue a civil claim against the liable party.
Fortunately, our team can step in and finalize your paperwork for you, giving you the time you need to recover from your injuries without sacrificing your right to legal action.
You Deserve Fair Representation After a Car Accident in Washington, D.C.
Kitchel Law wants to make it as easy as possible for you and your loved ones to navigate the legal process. Our legal representation can help you find the evidence needed to establish your request for compensation.
Our experienced car accident attorneys in Washington, D.C., have decades of experience helping accident victims like you hold productive conversations with negligent parties and insurance claims adjusters. Our efforts prioritize your right to economic and non-economic damages.
You can book your free motor vehicle accident case consultation with Kitchel Law representatives today. Let our experienced personal injury lawyers go to work for you.