Insurance companies are well known for dragging there feet in compensation cases and admitting liability. Take a look around the Internet on many of the consumer forums, blogs and independent watchdog sites to find out how insurers are behaving. Its no wonder that the ABI PR department is in full swing these days.

I have mentioned on this blog before how the power of the web can help individuals highlight their cases when they feel they have been ripped off by insurers.

As for ABI claiming that personal injury lawyers pocket almost 50% of any compensation claim to help cover their costs, here’s what the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) chief executive, Denis Kitchener said. “Legal costs have remained flat at 30 per cent for the last five years! Throwing the blame for rising costs on claimant lawyers isn’t helping anyone. We need to look at the entire system.”

Our Top 10 Road Safety Adverts list also shows the progress that awareness adverts have undergone through the years to help get their message across. Please be aware that some of these adverts are quite graphical and made to shock the viewer.

Kevin Keegan

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Green Cross Man

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Clunk Click

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Anti – Speeding

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It’s 30 for a Reason

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Think! Drink Driving Advert

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Drinking & Driving

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Use Your Seat Belt

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Youth Speeding

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Drink Drive – New Zeland

The Injury Lawyers are experts in road accident claims including whiplash but our help can only come after the accident – please be extra careful on the roads.

But today has to be the best yet! I mean this site not only ticks every box for snake-oil salesmanship but it goes beyond what I would deem as responsible. It offers golden information within its coveted covers to help John/Jane [delete as appropriate] Doe to claim for a car accident without any legal aid whatsoever. Yep, that ‘s right! This book has it all for the pricey sum of only $19.99 (about ten quid to me and you).

As soon as I came across the page I was thinking “Who in their right mind …” but get this, its on its 5th edition. And since those heady days when it first jumped hot off the printing presses its actually got thinner in the number of pages published.

We’ll the spiel from the moment you land on the site is focused on what the book can deliver to you. All the necessary tools are supplied within and by simply following its step-by-step instructions, backed-up by real life cases, you CAN settle with the insurance companies yourself. Sounds fantastic, where do I sign, hold up, there is a smidgen more…

You see even to a blind man with a screen reader it covers its get-out clause pretty darn well in the second paragraph with this little gem “Now there may be instances when you absolutely need an attorney” and again once more covers it tracks by stating that even if you have to go to an attorney/solicitor/lawyer that the book will have INFORMED you to what should be happening next.

The publishers of this book are trying to make a fast, smart buck, that is so obvious, but at the same time are trying to make a square peg fit into a rounded hole.

Please, don’t be ever put-off seeking advice from a proper experienced injury lawyer if you or a loved one or friend has been involved in a car accident. Each case is unique. Circumstances differ with each unfortunate accident. Its something a book or website will never understand is the personal part of it all.

To me, the crux of this whole shenanigans, is that this book was written by someone in the insurance industry. The very people you pay to be covered with. The same people who will stall a case for years and question everything you put or say in front of them. Now, tell me there isn’t someone, somewhere, having a right good laugh at all this and watching as their PayPal account increments as poor individual falls into their snake-oil spun web of lies!

Andrew goes into detail about the lack of social interaction on Lawyers blogs, stating that they are boring because “these blogs have no pictures, no graphics, very few colors, poor design ”and that the commentators on law blogs have a “superior tone” which always translates as “I’m better than you because I’m a lawyer.”

Now, Andrew, doesn’t give away the names of the blogs he feels “are boring” but he does state one thing in his mini-rant that the majority of them have no sense of social interaction, which I 100% agree with. I’ll also add they have no idea on how to market their blog to achieve maximum exposure for their company, website or even their own name.

Well we feel that The Injury Lawyers Blog is anything but “boring” but I don’t think Andrew was pointing the finger at this blog anyway.

We’re starting 2008 with a new resolution and commitment to the Injury Lawyers Blog. We’ll be posting more frequently, our posts will be still injury related but will have a few more flavours added just to keep things interesting and definitely “not boring”.

For an explanation as to why people don’t understand brain injuries please refer to my earlier post Effects Of Traumatic Brain Injuries – which goes a little way in explaining the hidden affects of brain injuries, which are often misunderstood by others.

So, in order to try raise a little public awareness about the hidden affects of a brain injury, I encourage anyone with any personal experience to post there comments and experiences on this blog…