Location and Contact Information

Matt A. Melone, Attorney At Law

5824 S. Louisville Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74135

Phone: 918-584-7373
Fax: 918-584-0634
Email: melonelaw@cox.net

Reasons To Hire An Attorney to Handle Your Car Accident Case

1. With a contingency fee agreement, there is no attorney fee unless your case is successfully resolved.
2. You may not understand all of the different items of damage that you are entitled to recover under Oklahoma law.
3. You may not understand how your own insurance coverage may be important to your case. For example, you may accidentally waive an under-insured motorist claim by settling your case against the responsible driver.
4. You may not understand whether you should allow the insurance company adjuster to take a recorded statement from you, what they are entitled to ask you, and whether you can get a copy of your statement.
5. You may not want the insurance company to have unlimited access to all of your medical records, which may contain purely private matters that don't have anything to do with the car accident.
6. You may not understand how your health insurance can play a big part in your case and whether your health insurance company will be entitled to reimbursement from your settlement.
7. You may not understand that your medical providers may file liens that entitle them to payment out of your insurance settlement.
8. You may not understand that Medicare and Medicaid may be entitled to reimbursement from your settlement and how to deal with those entities.
9. You may not understand the tax consequences of your settlement.
10. You may not know how to obtain all of your itemized medical bills to submit to the insurance company for consideration in reaching a settlement. Most people don't realize that, generally speaking, the medical bills must be paid out of your settlement. Therefore, if you accept a settlement and then realize that there are additional medical bills, you are still personally obligated to pay all your medical bills.