Tucker
Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Motorcyclists often face much higher challenges on the road than other drivers. People pay less attention to them and give them less space on the road. When a crash does happen, their injuries are often worse and their bills higher. A personal injury lawyer in Tucker can help you get compensation from the at-fault party.

Read more about motorcycle accident claims in Georgia and how an attorney can help. If you have any questions about your case or want to learn how much compensation you’re eligible for, you can talk to someone from our firm for free.

Compensation You Can Collect for a Motorcycle Accident

As you may well know, there are plenty of expenses that come along with a motorcycle accident, especially if you’ve been injured. The purpose of a motorcycle accident claim is to let you collect compensation for the consequences of an at-fault party’s actions. You shouldn’t be burdened with the price of someone else’s negligence.

Because of that, the compensation you get will be specifically based on the damages that you’ve suffered. These compensatory damages can be economic (financial tolls you’ve suffered) or non-economic (tolls on your quality of life and wellbeing).

Damages you can collect in a motorcycle accident case include:

• Medical expenses
• Lost wages due to missed work
• Diminished earning potential
• Property damage
• Repairs
• Pain and suffering
• Mental distress
• Wrongful death

Your Tucker motorcycle accident lawyer will use the bills, receipts, and other documents you’ve received to calculate the full extent of compensation that you’re owed. This doesn’t just include past expenses—if you will have to spend money on ongoing treatment or other future damages, those will be included as well.

How a Motorcycle Accident Lawyer in Tucker Can Help

Having a good Tucker motorcycle accident attorney is like having a Swiss army knife. Lawyers do more than just argue in court—they do everything needed to usher your claim from beginning to end. Your attorney will:

Investigate Your Case

To get full compensation, you’ll need to have a solid base of evidence that shows that it is more likely than not that the other party caused your damages. That means your attorney will have to gather things that show what happened and how the other party caused your damages.

Evidence in a motorcycle accident case often includes:

• Photo or video of the scene of the accident
• Witness statements
• Expert testimony
• Driving records

Calculate Your Damages

To show how much you’re owed, your motorcycle accident lawyer will need to calculate your damages. To help with this, you should save any bill or receipt that your receive, as that will decide not only how much you receive for economic damages, but also non-economic damages like pain and suffering.

Negotiate With the Insurance Company

The other party’s insurance company will most likely be handling your personal injury claim. They’ll want to avoid a lengthy, expensive lawsuit, so they’ll probably settle before that’s necessary. However, the insurance company will also want to save as much money as possible, so they’ll try to give you less compensation than you’re owed.

To do that, they’ll try to use your words against you or argue that your damages weren’t all caused by the other party. Your motorcycle accident lawyer in Tucker will negotiate with them to make sure they don’t take advantage of you.

Comparative Fault in a Motorcycle Accident Claim

One way that the other party’s insurance company may try to reduce your compensation is through Georgia’s comparative fault rule. That rule, found in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) § 51-12-33, states that any fault that you played in your accident could justify decreased compensation.

Georgia is what is known as a “modified comparative negligence” state. In certain states with traditional comparative negligence rules, any fault a plaintiff had in their accident could totally disqualify them from getting compensation. Instead, modified comparative negligence means the percentage of fault you had can be taken away from your full settlement.

For example, if you were eligible for $10,000 in damages for your motorcycle accident but you were 20% at fault (maybe you were speeding or not paying attention to the road), you could lose out on $2,000 of your original compensation. It’s important that your lawyer can show that you were not even partially at fault for your crash.

Talk to a Motorcycle Accident Attorney in Tucker Today

After a motorcycle crash, you may be experiencing steep medical bills and weeks of lost work. Those expenses add up, and if someone else caused them, you’re not the one who should be paying. A Tucker motorcycle accident lawyer from John Foy & Associates can help you recover compensation for your damages.

To get a FREE consultation, call us or contact us online today. Our team is available to talk to you 24/7.