We give you individual advice on your best course of action to receive the amount of compensation you are legally entitled from the insurance company.

A lot of mistakes are often made in processing traffic accidents, because you, as the injured party, often don’t know your rights or don’t know enough of them.

After an accident, the opposing insurance company often tries to contact you as soon as possible and proposes to take over the practical processing of the entire claim for you. At first, this sounds like a significant reduction in the work involved for you, and in most cases it does indeed result in faster processing of the necessary formalities.
However, in the course of this so-called “claims management” the accident is processed in such a way that the insurance company is the real beneficiary in most cases, and not you!

Their “claims management” allows the insurance company to save significant costs compared to the regular processing of accident claims that involves independent advice from lawyers and experts. Why else would insurance companies offer to practically handle the entire claim themselves, which involves additional costs, after all.

That’s why you should not agree if the opposing party’s insurance company offers to “help” you.

Rather, come to us first, as soon as possible after the accident, so we can advise you on your best course of action. In most cases, the first steps taken after an accident ultimately make a decisive difference as far as the amount of damages and assertion of you claim is concerned.

To give you an idea*, of how important it is to get legal advice after an accident, here is a simplified example:

After an accident, the motor vehicle expert determines the following:

Repair costs:
Replacement value of an equivalent, undamaged vehicle:
Residual value of the damaged vehicle:

Economically, this is a total loss because the repair costs are higher than the difference between the replacement value of an equivalent vehicle and the residual value of the damaged vehicle. The insurance company pays you the replacement value minus the determined residual value of the damaged vehicle, therefore € 4,000.–.

At this point the case is closed for many injured parties.

If you nevertheless decide, as is often the case, to have your vehicle repaired because you know someone who carries out the repairs for much less or because you may even be able to repair the vehicle yourself, then the insurance company is generally obligated to subsequently reimburse the repair costs determined by the motor vehicle expert up to the amount of the replacement value, without deducting the residual value.
In this case the insurance company would have to pay another € 2,000.– in addition to the € 4,000.– already paid, making a total of € 6,000.–.

The only condition is that you can demonstrate that your vehicle was repaired according to professional standards. You won’t have to present a repair bill. In most cases it is enough to send a few photos of the repaired vehicle to the insurance company or to obtain a letter of confirmation from a specialist regarding the repair.

In the case described here you might have given away a lot of money to which you are legally entitled.

*All information without guarantee