What Should I Do After a Personal Injury Accident? | Personal Injury Q&A with George Jebaily

What do I do after a personal injury accident? You know, very first thing you need to do is to contact who.ever it is that's involved. For instance, if you're in a car wreck, then you want to call the police officer, have them come to the scene. If it's an injury that occurs at a store, you want to be sure to report it and make sure that that's taken care of that way. So, reporting the incident to make sure that it's been properly, fully, and truthfully captured is very, very important. Get the name, if it is a store, get the name of the manager who is on duty, if anybody witnessed it, you'd want to get their name and contact information. Whether it was in a car wreck or an injury from someone, a premises liability at a store, hazardous condition situation, who were the witnesses that were there? Capture all of that information immediately is very important. The next thing is get yourself checked out. Whether that's going to an urgent care, going to the hospital or whatever, and obviously the severity of the injury can make a big difference, and if it's something that severe then you want to call the EMS or the ambulance to come transport you because you don't want to have it get worse because you tried to go on your own. So, those are the types of things that need to be handled right off the bat once there's a personal injury incident whether it's an automobile accident or something other type of situation.