If you're involved in a serious automobile accident, you should hire a lawyer. Contact Law Offices of Beninato & Matrafajlo for consult about your accident claim.

2. If you have been the victim of a hit and run
accident, you may be entitled to
compensation under your own Uninsured and
Underinsured Motorist Coverage. However,
many victims are under the assumption that
just because it is their own insurance carrier,
they will automatically get the full extent of
the compensation they deserve. On the
contrary, insurance carriers are not concerned
as to whether the claimant is their own
insured.

3. Insurance companies have one goal: to avoid
claim or to settle them as quickly as possible
for as little value as possible.

4. Dealing With Your Insurance Carrier
• If the hit-and-run vehicle is never located,
you must look to your own insurance
coverage.
• There are certain important tips you should
consider when dealing with your own
insurance carrier after a hit and run accident.
These are explained below:
• Never provide a recorded statement or sign
any papers. Providing proof of any
statement, whether oral or written, may
jeopardize your personal injury claim.

5. • Immediately report the accident to your own
insurance company. If your insurance policy has
an Uninsured or Under-insured Motorist
provision, you may be entitled to payment for
your medical bills and other costs related to your
hit and run accident.
• Your insurance company is not on your side.
Even though your insurance policy is intended to
help you, the carrier may not be on your side. All
insurance companies do not obey the rules and
try to offer a very smaller amount than they are
supposed to. As such, to ensure that you get the
full extent of the compensation you are entitled
to, it is in your best interest to have an
experienced personal injury lawyer on your side.

6. The insurance company will surely have its best
professionals at their side to representing its
interests, and you should have your own lawyer to
negotiate with the insurance adjuster.
The bottom line is that when you are injured in a
hit and run accident, it is important to act quickly
and to make sure that any step you take does not
jeopardize your claim in anyway. Try to gather or
record as much information as poshit-and-
rusible at the scene. When you are injured in a n
accident, it is important that you contact an
experienced a New Jersey personal injury
attorney.