Property Damage Matters

We all have different standards as to how our vehicles appear. Some of us get our cars detailed every week, while some haven’t seen a sponge in their entire tenure with their current owner. Whatever. That’s all fine.

But after an auto accident, getting your property damage addressed is really important for your bodily injury claim. Why is that? So glad you asked!

The insurance companies really don’t like giving away money, so they come up with all kinds of semi-plausible nonsense to give themselves an “out” on paying the injury claim. One of those is the old “we don’t think you could have been hurt in this accident given the property damage” BS.

Under this little example of non-science, the theory is that, in their infinite wisdom, the pencil-pusher looking at your case has decided that there wasn’t sufficient damage done to your car to make them believe this accident hurt you. Obviously, that’s bull$#!^. But the problem with people – people that might be on your jury – is that they’ll believe bull$#!^ when they want to. Just look at Trump voters for proof.

Now, when this really hurts is when you happen to be one of those folks that’s not really worried about your bumper being dented and so maybe you don’t get it fixed. That makes it look like a) the car wasn’t damaged badly enough to warrant repairs and/or b) maybe it wasn’t even damaged in this accident anyway! Either way, this helps to support the insurance company’s nonsensical theory of non-liability.

The moral of the story is that if you’re in an auto accident and are pursuing an injury claim, get your property damage addressed. Get the car fixed, even if it’s a hassle, because it can come back to bite you later if you don’t.