Practice Areas Playlist
Joseph Cammarata: The Brain Injury Association of America is a national organization devoted to promote the interests of those people who have suffered a brain injury. The Brain Injury Association of America has a board of directors. Ira Sherman is a member of the board of Directors. In addition, there are local affiliates throughout the United States that are associated with the Brain Injury Association of America. Ira and I co-founded the Brain Injury Association of Washington, D.C. I’m the president of that organization. Mr. Sherman is the vice president.
Ira Sherman: The benefit to working with a law firm such as ours is that we don’t only have our eye on the ball of getting compensation for our client. But but by taking this unfortunate circumstance that you or your loved one went through and trying to make structural changes within the District of Columbia system, whatever that may be, or whatever the system is that caused the injury.
Allan M. Siegel: If you suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, nobody can see it. It’s not anything usually that you can show on an MRI, but yet it affects people’s lives. It alters the way they think. It alters their personality. It affects their mood. Affects their daily life. Affects their work. And it’s important if you have a brain injury, that you hire a law firm that understands these types of injuries.
Joseph Cammarata: We here at the law firm have the experience to be able to completely and fully understand the nature and the extent of the brain injury, which is a complex injury. And we are totally, totally competent and able to articulate just what the nature and the effect of that injury is on a person’s life and well-being. We have clients that would support us in and say that, yes, we bring those resources to the table and we have results that we’ve achieved for other clients that are proof of that. Our ability to understand the injury and our ability to articulate it in a meaningful way that provides full and complete justice, full and complete compensation for our clients.
Allan M. Siegel: The firm has extensive experience in trucking cases and other cases involving commercial vehicles. And what you’ll learn is that a truck accident case is not the same as a car accident case. And if you hire a lawyer who doesn’t have truck accident experience, you’re really doing yourself a disservice.
Ira Sherman: What we feel we have accomplished by having the reputation that we do and the proven results that we have is to educate the defense lawyers as well as the insurance companies that we work with or work against on a daily basis, that we are the law firm that’s going to go to court and get the result. So you might as well pay us now and save on the defense costs.
Joseph Cammarata: We have experience, extensive experience in dealing with tractor trailer injuries. And we evaluate those cases. We understand what the requirements are for truckers from for how many hours they’re supposed to be on the road, what the requirements are for holding their commercial license, what the requirements are for them to drive a tractor trailer. And we bring to that we bring all of that knowledge and experience to our cases to understand just why it is that there was a failure on the part of the truck driver in causing the collision.
Allan M. Siegel: You have to know the rules and regulations that truck drivers are required to adhere to and they’re required to adhere to those rules and regulations because these trucks, these vehicles can cause so much damage. I mean, when you have a truck versus a car. It’s not even close. And it’s important to hire a lawyer who has the experience with those types of cases and the law firm of Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel does.
Allan Siegel: After someone’s involved in a car accident. Most importantly, you need to document what is happening at the scene. If you can take pictures of the vehicles before they get moved, it’s very important if anyone tries to claim later that something else happened. You have a documented by photographs. If you are injured, then it’s important that you get medical treatment. Sometimes clients think, Oh, well, I didn’t break a bone, I should be fine. And they ignore pain and discomfort and injuries in the hope that it’s going to get better. And when it doesn’t get better, the first thing that the insurance company will argue is they must not be hurt because they didn’t go to a doctor quick enough. So if you’re feeling pain, if you’re feeling discomfort, it’s important to get medical attention. So I always recommend to clients that they get medical attention relatively quickly. Instead of ignoring what are injuries, that could turn out to be more, much more serious later down the road. I would recommend that you speak to somebody before speaking to the insurance company, because you need to find out what your rights are. You need to find out what you’re entitled to. And you need to find out what you should and shouldn’t say so that you don’t end up saying something that could harm you. Somewhere down the road.
Ira Sherman: When you an insurance company, the only way to make the most money possible is to reduce the payout to people who counted on you to pay them a fair amount when they called on you. Now the advertisements are geared to assuring you that when you need them, they’ll be there. You’re in their hands and they’re good hands. But the truth is, they’re not always good hands. The hands that were in the ad, the good hands in the air somehow don’t usually show up when you need them. The hands that are the stingy hands show up because they’re the hands that really run the corporate psychology and what the corporation needs. And that is to pay the least possible amount because the least possible amount results in the greatest possible profit.
Joseph Cammarata: If you’re injured or a loved one or a friend is injured and you’re looking for a lawyer, I want you to know that you can pick up the phone. You can call us 24 hours a day. We will respond. We will give you a free consultation. We will help you understand what the process will be, what it is that you should do in terms of moving yourself forward and ultimately getting the proper medical attention that you need and dealing with the insurance companies.
