Category: About the process

  If you’ve been through a big life event, it’s common for many people today to turn to Facebook or Twitter to share their experience. Unfortunately, if you’ve just experienced a bicycle crash, sharing your story on social media could turn against you in the long run. Before you post your story or photos online,…

  One of the biggest concerns the cyclists who have been hit by cars have is if they will receive bike accident compensation and how they will pay for their medical care. It’s no surprise why. The kinds of injuries cyclists can sustain in a crash — like broken bones and brain injuries — are…

  A bicycle crash can change your life forever. There’s the immediate change — injuries, damage to your bike, missing work — and then there are the long term changes. You might miss out on opportunities because of long-term injuries that don’t heal. You might never enjoy riding your bike without fear again. When you…

  Too many people wait too long to call a bicycle injury lawyer after they’ve been injured in a bicycle crash. Of course, their reasons almost always make sense. Calling a lawyer sounds expensive; maybe you don’t think your injuries are serious enough to bother with a case; maybe you didn’t even know it was…

  While paying your bills is usually a fairly mundane part of daily life, after you’ve been in a crash, paying bills can become one of the most stressful parts of your life. You might start to see bills from all sorts of new sources (insurance companies, medical centers, repair shops) and the amounts are…

  Getting into a bicycle accident is often a scary and disorienting experience, and most people don’t know what they are supposed to do when it happens to them. There’s so much happening in one quick moment; most accidents come as a surprise, you might not yet be feeling any injuries or how severe they…

In many bicycle-accident injury cases, the insurance company will eventually demand that the injured cyclist attend a medical examination with a doctor of the insurance company’s own choosing.  The insurance company has a right to demand one such examination pursuant to California’s Code of Civil Procedure. The insurance company likes to refer to these examinations as…