Chapel Hill Injury Attorneys
Any NC State fan can tell you: Chapel Hill is a strange place. College rivalries aside, the town is interesting for several reasons. It’s a bastion of liberal politics in a somewhat conservative state. Half of our population leaves in the summer. We have nationally recognized chefs but aren’t even the county seat. It’s odd.
One thing that sets Chapel Hill apart, and is interesting to me in particular, is the number of attorneys we have. Let’s face it: It’s a nice place to live and when people get out of law school they decide to stay. Who can blame them?
In many small towns you run into attorneys that consider themselves general practitioners. The reality is that’s how they keep the doors to their practices open; if someone wants a will, they’ll do it, if someone has a divorce, they’ll do it, if someone has a fender bender, they’ll do it, and so forth.
That’s fine. When you’re talking run of the mill stuff, most attorneys can handle whatever. But when it comes to injury claims, do you really want a general practitioner to handle it? Maybe. Maybe not.
With very minimal injury auto accident claims, you might get similar outcomes with someone who doesn’t focus mostly on injury claims. When I characterize an accident as minimal, I mean one where the vehicles are barely scratched and the victims don’t go to the hospital. However, if you’re talking about more complex injury claims there are more “moving pieces,” as I call them, in the claim and for every moving piece there is a potential mistake to be made.
If you’re not handling injury claims every day like I do, you just may not have the time to stay up to date on lien law, Medicaid and Medicare subrogation, liability coverage, Med Pay, UM and UIM coverage, and premises liability claims. Each of these issues – and there are more – present a potential challenge for claims, and if the attorney who’s handling the claim doesn’t have a strong grasp of the concepts and law involved, they can do irreparable harm to your claim, and your bottom line.
Take a look at my website: www.jeffreyhowardlaw.com (which you already are looking at since you’re reading this). What does it tell you?
It tells you I handle Personal Injury claims, Workers’ Compensation claims, Mediation, and Traffic Tickets. The first two things are injury law, so they make sense to go together. Mediation is conflict resolution in general, but it can be used in the injury law context. The only thing I do that isn’t injury-law-related is traffic tickets, but what small town attorney doesn’t do traffic tickets? It’s a great way to help and meet people, and broaden your client base.
So if you’ve got an injury claim and are looking for an attorney, do yourself a favor and hire one that handles injury claims as a central focus to their practice. Check out their website and examine their practice areas. If they have several unrelated practice areas, you’re dealing with a generalist. Is that bad? No, not necessarily. But think of it this way: If you have a tumor, do you want your family doc to treat it exclusively, or do you think the oncologist might be better suited to that?
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