The insurer already knows what happened. Time you did too.
Every modern vehicle records the seconds before a serious crash. Speed, brake pressure, steering input, delta-v at impact. The insurance company pulls that data early and prices your case against it. We pull the same data and price it back.
The five seconds before impact. Translated into what your case is worth.
Every value in the readout below is drawn from a real event data recorder in a serious injury crash our practice handled. The right column is what those raw numbers become when a case is built around them.
What the black box actually means for your recovery.
Insurers read the EDR as a defense document. We read it as the first page of the damages model. A 41 mph delta-v is not a data point. It is a life care plan, a wage loss projection, and a jury argument built out of physics the insurance company already stipulated.
A serious injury case is built out of three things. Miss one and the number gets smaller.
Preserve the vehicle. Pull the EDR. Photograph everything.
Once the car is released to salvage, the black box goes with it. We move fast on preservation letters, EDR downloads, and independent scene reconstruction before the insurance company gets there first.
Document the injury on the record the insurer cannot dispute.
Serious injury cases turn on imaging cadence, specialist chains, and treatment gaps. We coordinate care so the record reads as intended, not as the adjuster wants to argue it.
Find every policy the crash touched.
Liability, UM, UIM, resident relative, umbrella, MedPay, and employer coverage where the vehicle was work-related. We map the full coverage stack before a demand ever goes out.
Photographs beat memory. Every time.
What you or someone with you captures on a phone at the scene will outperform any statement written days later. Vehicle positions, skid marks, roadway conditions, weather, sightlines. Get it before it changes.
Do not authorize the vehicle for salvage yet.
The EDR lives in the car. The insurance company will tell you the total-loss process is standard and fast. It is fast on purpose. Let us pull the data first.
The adjuster is not calling to help.
The recorded statement is discovery, disguised as courtesy. Every word gets used at deposition years later. Nothing about the crash or the injury should be described until we are on the line with you.
Your case gets a number the insurer has to answer.
We build the damages case with life care planners, vocational economists, medical experts, and the black box data before any demand goes out. The number is defensible, documented, and structured to survive litigation if the insurer wants to fight.