Injury Claims are like Sand Castles

I know it sounds way loony.  But hear me out…

Injury claims are like sand castles.  To make a sand castle, you need two things:  sand and water.  To make an injury claim, you generally  (there are no absolutes in this business) need two things: injuries and treatment.

When you’re making a sand castle, you need sand because it’s your main building material.  But without water, you can’t get it to rise up, hold a form, and stay stable.  Too little water and you can only make a sand hill.  Too much water and you can only make a mud puddle.

With injury claims it’s a similar dynamic.  You need injuries as your damages, your main building material if you will.  But without treatment to lend credence to the injuries, you don’t have as strong of a claim.  You don’t have a third party expert verifying your injuries, you don’t have documentation showing what you have endured in your recovery, and you don’t have as many economic losses to show, either.

Like with a sand-only sand castle, if all you give me is an injury, then I can make a hill, but not a very big one.  If you want your claim to be treated seriously, and frankly if you want to get better (and who doesn’t?) then you’re going to want treatment.

But like the water issue, too much treatment can be as big of a problem as too little; you don’t want to run up a bill needlessly, and you don’t want to get treatment you just don’t need.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.  There are no treatments for rib fractures other than pain meds, but they still have value.  And there are several other examples I don’t need to go into.

So there you have it.  Injury claims are like sand castles.  And I am the Forest Gump of personal injury attorneys.

And that’s all I have to say about that.