The Santa Clarita Valley is home to two world-class recreational lakes: Castaic Lake and Pyramid Lake. Sadly, along with world-class lakes comes overcrowding, carelessness, and simple stupidity. The very strange fact of boating is that there is no special training, licensing, or skill required to drive a small but deadly recreational boat. Given that many boats today have higher horsepower than even performance cars and are drivers are often drinking, disasters happen all too often. Unlike most car accident cases resulting in minor injuries, the boater’s, water-skier’s, or jet skier’s injuries are usually severe, catastrophic, or deadly.
Any person who has been involved in a boating accident needs the services of an experienced California accident firm like Edzant Price. Because it can be very difficult to prove fault in any boating accident, you need aggressive and professional representation to ensure that you receive the benefits you deserve: repayment for medical bills, property loss, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more.
Don’t make the mistake of assuming you don’t need legal representation after a boating accident. As for-profit businesses, insurance companies strive to settle cases for as little as possible and recognize that you are often unprepared to handle your own claim. By offering you a small amount of money, the insurance companies will try to get you to settle for much less compensation than you deserve and are entitled to receive.
What most accident victims discover the hard way is that the insurance companies typically won’t give them a fair offer until after they get legal representation from a well-seasoned attorney. Only at that point do the insurance companies know the victim means business, and they will then be forced to treat an injured victim with respect and fairness.
Another common problem for boating accident victims who try to represent themselves is that they can end up hurting their own case. Insurance companies will take the victim’s statement after the incident when the victim may still be recovering and unable to give accurate information. The insurance companies then use the victim’s errors and temporary confusion to build a case against him or her. They will also demand that documents be signed that can ultimately hurt the victim’s case as well.
The attorneys at Edzant Price will never allow you to talk to the opposing insurance companies, or their lawyers, alone. We can also prevent the insurance companies from taking advantage of your vulnerable condition.
Boating accident victims are not the only ones who can benefit from our services; people who have lost their loved ones in a boating accident may be able to file a wrongful death suit against the careless person responsible for the incident. While winning the case will never bring back a spouse, child, sibling, or parent, the award will provide important compensation for the loss and will help the family pay for the costs related to the loss.