The goal of every insurance company is to settle a personal injury claim for as little as possible. In meeting this goal, adjusters may use tricks and cheap tactics to significantly delay the evaluation of the claim until you are in such a monetary bind that you will agree to a settlement amount only a fraction of the value of your claim. This is perhaps one of the most important reasons why you need to hire a Springfield personal injury attorney to prevent the adjuster from using evaluation ploys to delay the settlement of your claim.

Two of the most common evaluation ploys used by insurance adjusters are the request for more information and a response that the investigation is not complete.

More Information Needed

In general, insurance adjusters keep requesting more information from plaintiff’s attorneys. For example, if your Springfield personal injury attorney provides the adjuster with a 30-page medical bill, you can expect the adjuster to request more information corresponding to the bills.

Incomplete Investigation

Another ploy that adjusters often engage in to stall the settlement of claims is to tell the attorney that the investigation is incomplete. To avoid this stalling tactic, your Springfield personal injury attorney can ask the adjuster for the exact information he needs to complete the investigation, what steps he is taking to obtain the information and how much longer he anticipates the investigation to finish.

We Can Help

If you were injured in an accident, you need to hire a Springfield personal injury attorney to deal with the insurance company and to avoid stalling of the settlement of your claim. For more information, call McCarthy Rowden & Baker at 800-373-6050.