{"id":3854,"date":"2018-06-26T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2018-06-26T20:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:01:18","slug":"nebraska-injury-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/nebraska-injury-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hire a Nebraska Injury Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hire Steve Montag, Your Nebraska Injury Lawyer<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Delayed onset of symptoms is normal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3437\" src=\"https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/comic-characters-2025788_640-190x300.png\" alt=\"Accident Injury Lawyer\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/comic-characters-2025788_640-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/comic-characters-2025788_640.png 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>Often you do not know how badly you were injured until days or even weeks after an accident.\u00a0 At the scene of an accident, you are excited and the adrenaline is flowing.\u00a0 Even if you were cut and bleeding, you may not notice that you were injured until you have time to settle down and stiffen up.\u00a0 Some injuries are very obvious.\u00a0 If you have a broken bone, the pain will get your attention immediately and it is normally easy to find.\u00a0 Other types of injuries are less obvious.\u00a0 Head and spine injuries often happen in car accidents.\u00a0 Some of the other frequent injuries are sprains, strains, and injuries to joints.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries that do not show up on X rays are often called soft tissue injuries.\u00a0 Many of the neck and back injuries that occur in most medium to high impact accidents are treated by physical therapy or chiropractic.\u00a0 Even minor injuries to your spine can take several months to treat.\u00a0 Even if you do not know the full extent of your injuries until a while after the accident, you do not have to accept pain.\u00a0 However, it is important to seek medical treatment as soon as you decide you need it.\u00a0 Starting medical treatment as soon as possible after the accident helps prove that the injury was caused by the accident.\u00a0 Many times I have known people who waited months in significant pain without doing anything about it.\u00a0 That leaves you open to questions about whether or not a second accident after the time of your motor vehicle accident was the cause of your injury.<\/p>\n<h3>You Need A Nebraska Injury Lawyer For These Complex Legal issues<\/h3>\n<p>After you have been injured in a Nebraska accident you need the advice of an experienced <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/montaglaw.net\/news\/\">Nebraska Injury Lawyer<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Doing the right things during the time soon following a car accident is critical to making a successful injury claim.\u00a0 There are many possible circumstances that cause accidents.\u00a0 An injury victim or even an inexperienced injury lawyer cannot be expected to know what to do.\u00a0 Nothing can take the place of an extensive knowledge of Nebraska Injury Law and a wide variety of experiences.\u00a0 Steven Montag has helped thousands of injury victims make successful injury claims since 1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You only have one chance to handle your injury claim the right way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The initial statements that you make to insurance investigators can make or break your case.\u00a0 Insurance adjusters are trained to be very aggressive.\u00a0 They will use any information they obtain to deny or minimize claims.\u00a0 Minor mistakes while giving statements about your accident can be misconstrued as admissions of fault.\u00a0 A thorough initial investigation is required soon after the accident to prevent losing evidence.\u00a0 The decisions you make about your medical treatment soon after the accident are also very important.\u00a0 In my experience, whenever potential clients have waited for months to contact an Injury Lawyer, they are very likely to have made mistakes that seriously harmed their claims.\u00a0 Do not wait until you know your claim is in trouble to get the professional representation you need.\u00a0 Things go a lot more smoothly if you make good decisions from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of injuries and losses caused by car, truck or motorcycle accidents<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things we help our injury clients with is the property damage portion of the claim<\/p>\n<p>The injury claim does not normally get finished until after a client is completely done with treatment and is medically stable but the car can get settled right away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may also lose time from work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You need to be compensated for the time you had to take off from work.\u00a0 One of the drawbacks of taking time off from work in Nebraska is that you will not get paid for the time you miss until the conclusion of your claim unless you have very good sick leave benefits.\u00a0 Many people use vacation time to limit their lost income.\u00a0 Either way, it is unfortunate to use up benefits that you will not have later.\u00a0 Staying home sick is a rotten way to spend your vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Another concern about taking time off from work in Nebraska is that this is an at-will employment state.\u00a0 Your employer does not need a reason to fire you.\u00a0 If they get impatient waiting for you to return to work, you may end up paying the price by losing your job.\u00a0 When people get fired after an accident the employer will often refuse to help document lost wages.\u00a0 In Nebraska, it is very important to communicate with your employer and be as considerate as possible after an accident.\u00a0 It is important to get back to work as soon as reasonably possible after the accident and to schedule doctors\u2019 appointments outside of your normal working hours whenever possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Accident Victims Need to Recover the Full Cost of their Reasonable and Necessary Medical Bills<\/h3>\n<p>Insurance companies will dispute medical expenses any way that they can, but they must be held accountable to pay for the cost of your treatment.\u00a0 They often try to dispute the cost of your treatment as well as the amount of time that you were treated as well as the medical necessity of your treatment.<\/p>\n<h3>Loss of Earning Capacity is another type of economic damages that must be compensated<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes it is not possible for a person to return to the kind of work that they did before their accident.\u00a0 Often long-term impairments will make physical jobs impossible.\u00a0 It may be necessary to have retraining for other work or it may be possible that an injury will affect your ability to earn a living permanently.<\/p>\n<h3>Pain and Suffering<\/h3>\n<p>This is an expression used to describe several things.\u00a0 There is actual pain and suffering after an injury.\u00a0 There is also a lot of inconvenience and hassle of doing things like taking the time and trouble to go to doctors\u2019 appointments.\u00a0 Being hurt also interferes with many things that you need to do in your daily life.\u00a0 Everyone needs to be able to walk and stand to work and do things around the house.\u00a0 How can you enjoy entertainment or sports if you are in constant pain?\u00a0 You might even be unlucky enough to have long-term problems and pain after an accident.\u00a0 You may no longer be able to do many things you enjoyed doing before the accident.<\/p>\n<h3>Consult an Injury Law Specialist<\/h3>\n<p>Each situation is different.\u00a0 <em><strong>Nebraska Injury Lawyer<\/strong><\/em> Steven A. Montag has the experience needed to help you make a successful injury claim after an accident in Nebraska.\u00a0 We have offices in Omaha and Lincoln to serve you.\u00a0 Call toll free at (800) 533-0067 for an initial consultation.\u00a0 There is never a legal fee until we win your case and make money for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hire Steve Montag, Your Nebraska Injury Lawyer Delayed onset of symptoms is normal Often you do not know how badly you were injured until days or even weeks after an accident.\u00a0 At the scene of an accident, you are excited and the adrenaline is flowing.\u00a0 Even if you were cut and bleeding, you may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hire a Nebraska Injury Lawyer - 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