You are in a concert venue standing next to an arguing couple. One party gets upset at the other and throws a beer bottle at them. Instead of hitting the intended target, the other person ducks and you get hit squarely in the face, sustaining injuries. You might be wondering if the person who threw the bottle is liable for your injuries or not.

In most instances the answer would be yes, because their intent might not have been to injure you, but you are injured due to their actions anyway. Just because someone doesn’t intend to hurt you, that does not negate their responsibility or their liability to pay for your injuries and damages.

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Fleets have to prepare for a serious accident and should be ready for any event, right from top management down to dispatchers and drivers. The immediate actions of drivers and other personnel of a company following an accident can result to either losing or winning a lawsuit. The key is proper training and proper preparation. Here are the various steps drivers should take when they are involved in a truck accident.

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Car accidents occur frequently, and that is why every driver needs to have personal injury insurance. However, most people don’t have an idea about the best way they can make a compensation claim when they have been injured. That is because you need to go about it in the proper manner and learn the appropriate terms and conditions of your accident injury claim. If you have been looking to make a compensation claim when you have been injured, here is how you can do it:

1. Prepare, Organize, and Prepare

   You should be organized and prepared when going to make your compensation claim. This means bringing all the documents and organizing them properly, so you can access them immediately. The best prepared person will generally win fair compensation when they are injured.

2. Understand What Constitutes Suffering and Pain

   You need to understand exactly what constitutes as suffering and pain, before you go on making a compensation claim. This is because you should know where you stand when negotiating for your claim, and it will also help move the case along faster. You need to know your stuff, otherwise the negotiator will try to trick you into not taking the best compensation you can avail.

3. Speak Professionally

   To ensure that the claims adjusters take your claims seriously, you must treat them with the same respect that you would give to any other professional. This means you need to speak in a clear, controlled, and steady voice, without resorting to insults, or screaming at the top of your lungs at them. Make sure that you don’t sound desperate, and don’t try to make them feel sorry for you. If you’re not genuine or professional towards them, you will not win a suitable compensation.

4. Don’t Presume Anything

   People generally think very highly of themselves, but when you’re going to make a claim for compensation when you have been injured, it is best you don’t presume anything. Don’t allow yourself to think about the outcome of the compensation before a meeting has even taken place. Keep faith in yourself and don’t try to force the compensation.

5. Don’t Attempt to Get Personal

   It is best that you keep things professional without attempting to get personal with the claims adjustor. This will serve you better in the end, because if you try to make things personal it can quickly get messy, and the outcome will not be in your favor. The claims adjustor is not your friend, and venting out your anger onto them isn’t going to do your claim any good. So keep your cool, remain professional, and calmly state your claim.

6. Never Imply or Invite Collusion

   There have been several cases in the past, where injured parties have misunderstood something from the adjustor, and have implied that they are proposing something illegal. If you try to work an angle and get them into unnecessary trouble, they will start treating your claim with discontent and move on. So, it’s in your best interest to keep things smooth and not accuse them of having any bias towards you.