Greensboro: Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

What a Motorcycle Crash Does to a Body

Motorcycles offer no protection for the rider.  There’s no occupant cage and no pre-engineered crumple zone to absorb impact injury.  For motorcycle victims, we commonly see traumatic brain injury, spinal cord damage, road rash deep enough to require skin-grafting, complex fractures, internal organ damage, and amputation. Some riders do not survive their injuries.  

The medical file has to connect every one of those injuries to the collision itself. Carriers hunt for any prior complaint or pre-existing condition in your records that lets them argue that the claimed injury was not caused by the wreck. Thirty years of experience only handling traumatic injury cases has helped us to master the field of traumatic medicine.  Our close analysis of all medical tests and records helps us build valuable medical evidence to prove the true nature and full extent of all injuries.  Also, our medical experience helps us close down insurance adjuster’s efforts to minimize your injury claims.  

What to Do After a Motorcycle Wreck in Greensboro

1. Get treated, even if you stood up and walked. Adrenaline hides real injuries for hours.
2. Call the police and make sure a report gets filed.
3. Photograph the bike, the scene, your gear, and your injuries. Damaged gear is evidence.
4. Collect witness names and numbers yourself. Officers frequently skip that part.
5. Refuse recorded statements from any insurance company until you’ve talked to a lawyer.
6. Call our office. We’ll tell you where you stand even if you’d rather not hire a lawyer.

What You Can Collect, and What We Charge

North Carolina law allows an injured rider collect money for medical bills, the cost of future medical needs, lost wages, future costs to modify home or transportation, and lost future earning capacity if the biker cannot return to their prior line of work. On top of these losses, the rider can collect additional tax-free payment for pain and suffering, permanency of injury, scarring, disfigurement, and lost quality of life.

Our firm’s contingency fee is 25% of settlement, compared with the 33.3% most personal injury firms charge. Thus, our client’s share is 75% of every settlement dollar instead of about 66%. Carl set the fee there on purpose. Due to our success handling large loss crash injury cases and because we know we will collect top dollar for our clients, we feel that our clients should keep a larger share of their injury claim settlement.  

We also invest in your case by advancing every case cost, including accident reconstruction when an at-fault driver disputes fault or blames our client. Those costs come back out of the settlement, and we only invest money in case development costs that we know will increase the settlement value of the case.  Also, our fee and case advances are no win, no obligation for the client.  Thus, if there’s no settlement, the firm absorbs the case expenses.

In most cases, we collect money from more than one policy for our clients.  The at-fault driver may be covered under more than one policy.  Also, if the at-fault driver was on the job, their employer’s commercial liability policy may provide significant additional funding.  Also, plenty of drivers who hit motorcycles carry minimum limits. Your own uninsured and underinsured coverage should apply to provide significant additional tax-free compensation, and so may other auto/bike insurance policies held by relatives by blood or marriage who lived at your address the day of the wreck.

Results and Client Reviews

Over roughly 30 years the firm has recovered more than $850 million for North Carolina car, truck, motorcycle, and roadway crash victims. Case outcomes are posted on our results page.

Riders tend to write about two things in their reviews. Somebody called them back, every time. And nobody charged them extra to sort out what happened to the bike.