In addition to hiring competent representation and listening to both your attorney and your doctor, you can also take steps on your own to strengthen your case. For example, take accurate and consistent records of how your injury has impacted your life, as well as of expenses like mileage and lost wages.
Keeping a diary or journal will help you keep track of all the ways your accident and injury have impacted your day-to-day life. All the multiple small ways build up into considerable consequences for which you deserve compensation.
For example, in one Mississippi case, a lady was in a wreck and found she could no longer fold things, as she had injured her dominant left hand and had to learn to use her mouth and her right hand instead. The journal she kept highlighted all the little ways it changed her and her family’s lives. Her husband now had to take over most of the childcare and household care duties; even things like folding baby clothes and doing dishes became impossible or complicated.
These are details juries are very sensitive to, and they can appreciate if your case has to make it to trial. So always keep track of all those little things; they are more important than you might think. Especially when up against an insurance company determined to pay out as little as possible.