Will Pre-existing Injuries Affect My Car Accident Claim?

Pre-existing injuries are just a fact of life for many people who then happen to be injured in a car accident. These are injuries that you already had, in the same area of the body and often the same type of injury you sustained in the accident, or even the same injury made worse by the accident. Insurance companies love them because they love to exploit them to get out of paying. They try to claim that you re lying and the injury was not caused or made worse by the accident, and they will often try to convince you that it is simply not possible to recover compensation if you have pre-existing injuries. Don’t fall for their tricks. Talk to the experienced motor vehicle accident attorneys of McPhillips Fitzgerald & Cullum LLP, today.

An experienced motor vehicle accident attorney knows how to deal with pre-existing injuries, but only if they know the truth. Your opponent will find out, and your attorney needs to be prepared to prove that the injuries you are seeking compensation for were caused by the accident. The only way to do that is to gather all the information on your pre-existing injury, including the medical records that can be used to differentiate the old injury or severity of the injury from the injuries you experienced in the crash.