If you’ve been hurt or disabled anywhere in the State of Oklahoma, give Colbert Cooper Hill a call. Our legal team handles many types of cases, including: 

• Personal injury. This includes people injured in a car accident, truck accident, motorcycle accident, slip and fall accident, by a defective product, or by any other type of personal injury caused by someone else’s negligence, carelessness, or recklessness. 

• Wrongful death. If you’ve recently lost a loved one and someone else was at fault, you may be entitled to compensation for medical and funeral expenses, monetary losses, grief, and loss of companionship. Our team helps families get fair compensation and closure from wrongful death claims. 

• Workplace accident. If you were hurt on the job, we can help you with your workers’ compensation claim. We also handle complex workplace injury scenarios such as oil field accidents, where you may be entitled to workers’ compensation from your employer as well as a personal injury claim against one or more additional negligent parties. 

• Disability. Applying for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits can be a long and frustrating process, and simple mistakes made by filers can lead to lengthy delays or incorrect denials. Working with one of our disability attorneys can give you the best chance at a quick, successful approval or appeal.  

For us to determine whether you have a valid case, you’ll need to schedule an initial consultation with our team. Don’t worry—this initial consultation is always 100% free, with no obligations afterward. We’ll give you our honest, professional opinion about your legal options and whether we think we can help you. 

In most personal injury cases, the rule is that you have 2 years from the date of the injury to file a lawsuit. However, there are three important things you should understand: 

• There are exceptions. Depending on the circumstances, you may have more or less time than the standard two years. 

• Evidence can disappear. Even if you have two years to file a claim, the evidence you need to prove your claim won’t last that long. In the meantime, you could seriously damage your case just by making simple mistakes when managing your healthcare or talking with an insurance adjuster. 

• Building a case takes time. Before filing a lawsuit, you’ll need time to investigate the accident, get medical treatment and opinions, gather records, make a demand for compensation, and go through at least one round of negotiation with the insurance company. 

For all these reasons and more, the best time to talk with an Oklahoma City personal injury lawyer is always as soon as possible after the injury. You should never wait until the last minute to start defending your legal rights. 

Figuring out how much a personal injury case is worth is a difficult process. 

As an injury victim, you’re entitled to demand compensation for your financial losses (such as past and future medical bills, lost wages, and household services), as well as losses that are harder to quantify (such as pain and suffering, emotional anguish, and reduction in quality of life). 

It’s hard enough to predict the cost of future treatments and surgeries or assign a dollar value to emotional trauma. But the value of your case can be affected in other ways, too, such as: 

• The strength of the available evidence 

• Whether you were partially responsible for your own injury 

• How much insurance coverage is available (or if the defendant has any personal assets you can obtain) 

• The skill and experience of your personal injury attorney 

Don’t rely on online calculators to guess how much your case might be worth. Instead, schedule a free consultation with one of our personal injury lawyers. We’ll take a look at the factors involved in your case and provide a better estimate of what we think your case could be worth. 

It costs you nothing to hire us. 

We work on contingency for all our cases. That means if we don’t win you a settlement or an award at trial, you owe us $0. If we do win, our fee will be an agreed upon percentage of what we obtain. No surprises, no catches. 

For workers’ compensation cases, we charge the percentage authorized by state statute. For Social Security Disability cases, we only charge a percentage of any past due benefits we get for you allowed under the law. 

Not necessarily. In fact, you might not even need to file a lawsuit. 

Cases begin with an investigation and gathering of evidence. Once we have all the facts, we’ll send a letter to the insurance company demanding fair compensation for the losses you’ve suffered. If they agree to your terms, then there’s no need to sue them. 

Unfortunately, insurance companies don’t always agree to pay fair settlements without a little bit of legal pressure. But even if we do file a personal injury lawsuit on your behalf, that doesn’t necessarily mean your case is going to trial, either. The parties can still negotiate a settlement, right up to the start of trial. Most lawsuits do eventually settle. 

We know that the legal process can be scary, and injured victims often feel conflicted. You might not think you’re the “suing type.” But at the end of the day, you have legal rights and deserve fair treatment. Sometimes a lawsuit—or trial—is the only way to receive it. 

Either way, you are always in control of your case. We work for you. We’ll give you our advice and recommendations, but we will always act in your best interest and will never make any decisions about filing a lawsuit, settling your personal injury case, or going to trial without your knowledge and approval.  

There’s no easy answer to this question. If the facts are clear and the insurance company agrees to our settlement demand, some cases settle in just a few weeks or months.  

On the other hand, difficult cases involving serious personal injury and a lot of damages can take months or even years to resolve, particularly if they go all the way to trial. And insurance companies often try to delay, delay, delay to pressure injury victims to settle for a fraction of what they deserve. 

Our Oklahoma City personal injury lawyers always have your best interests at heart and work hard to get you the best possible outcome in the shortest amount of time. However, there’s often tradeoffs to consider. Settling for less money could mean a much faster resolution to your case. But it could leave you struggling financially years down the road, without enough money to cover ongoing treatments or wage losses. 

We understand the stress, anger, uncertainty, and financial burden that follows a personal injury. That said, for most families, it’s usually better in the long run to fight for fair compensation rather than settling for a quick resolution. Our experienced attorneys can often help victims negotiate with healthcare providers to delay payments until after the case is over and even settle those bills for less. This helps our clients get through the hard times and keep more of their settlement after the case is over. 

But as we said above, you are always in control of your case. We will give you our honest opinion of whether we think a settlement offer is fair, or how much more you’re likely to get if you fight. But in the end, it’s your money, your life, and your decision to make.