Hey can you guys give me a little help here?
Last week i was a rear seat passenger in a car. We were travelling in the left lane, another car was in the right lane ahead of us. The other car proceded to attemp an illegal U-turn across a double yellow road (from the right lane) across our lane (the left lane) and in the process turned right in front of us. We had no time to avoid the accident and we T-boned the other car.
I was in the back seat passenger side of a small car with the front seat slid back and reclined back far. My head hit the head rest of the reclined seat and my teeth dug out a chunk of my upper lip. The chunk of lip was hanging on a thread. The ER doc said that there was a chance that the chunk of lip would not re-attach to my lip, but he was going to stitch it back and hopefully it would reattach.
Back to the scene of the accident. When the cars stopped i hopped out of the car and walked to the side of the road in a daze and stood hunched over so as not to droll any more blood on myself and then someone allowed me to lay in their van intil the ambulance came. During this time i didn't see the driver of the other car and i later assumed he must have been hurt because he didn't come to see how i was doing.
I later found out that the U-turn driver was on travel and had a rental car and instead of seeing if everyone else was ok, he immediately got on the cell phone to try and get another rental car.
I have since gone to the dentist to see if that looked ok, and my dentist found a vertical crack in my tooth, and my root to be inflamed. He says that it will take some time to determine the extend of the damage to the tooth, but a worst case could be a dead tooth requiring a root canal, etc.
Also, he recommended that i see a plastic surgeon to get an opinion, and that in the future i may want plastic surgery if the scar tissue heals in a weird shape (if the chunk of skin reattaches itself).
So my medical insurance company says that it deny the claim for the auto insurance of my driver to pay. I was contacted by the auto insurance of the driver of my car and when they determine the liability they plan to get the money from the U-turn drivers auto insurance.
So what should i do? There is a chance that there could be much further expensive medical reprocussions from this event. Should i get an injury lawyer? Or what should i do?
-(Broken) Erik in CT
Last week i was a rear seat passenger in a car. We were travelling in the left lane, another car was in the right lane ahead of us. The other car proceded to attemp an illegal U-turn across a double yellow road (from the right lane) across our lane (the left lane) and in the process turned right in front of us. We had no time to avoid the accident and we T-boned the other car.
I was in the back seat passenger side of a small car with the front seat slid back and reclined back far. My head hit the head rest of the reclined seat and my teeth dug out a chunk of my upper lip. The chunk of lip was hanging on a thread. The ER doc said that there was a chance that the chunk of lip would not re-attach to my lip, but he was going to stitch it back and hopefully it would reattach.
Back to the scene of the accident. When the cars stopped i hopped out of the car and walked to the side of the road in a daze and stood hunched over so as not to droll any more blood on myself and then someone allowed me to lay in their van intil the ambulance came. During this time i didn't see the driver of the other car and i later assumed he must have been hurt because he didn't come to see how i was doing.
I later found out that the U-turn driver was on travel and had a rental car and instead of seeing if everyone else was ok, he immediately got on the cell phone to try and get another rental car.
I have since gone to the dentist to see if that looked ok, and my dentist found a vertical crack in my tooth, and my root to be inflamed. He says that it will take some time to determine the extend of the damage to the tooth, but a worst case could be a dead tooth requiring a root canal, etc.
Also, he recommended that i see a plastic surgeon to get an opinion, and that in the future i may want plastic surgery if the scar tissue heals in a weird shape (if the chunk of skin reattaches itself).
So my medical insurance company says that it deny the claim for the auto insurance of my driver to pay. I was contacted by the auto insurance of the driver of my car and when they determine the liability they plan to get the money from the U-turn drivers auto insurance.
So what should i do? There is a chance that there could be much further expensive medical reprocussions from this event. Should i get an injury lawyer? Or what should i do?
-(Broken) Erik in CT