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What are the biggest challenges of bike accident cases?

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the biggest challenge in a bike accident
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case is finding adequate coverage
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because when you get hit on a bicycle or
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for that matter a motorcycle it’s like
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taking your fist to a gunfight you’re
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never going to win and and many of those
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cases involve catastrophic injuries
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often brain injuries even with a helmet
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it’s so much trauma for the human body
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to encounter a moving vehicle that if
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the driver has a 25,000 50,000 $100,000
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policy it’s not even going to come close
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to covering the bills and then
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compensating someone appropriately for
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whatever broken bones or brain injury or
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other injuries that they have that’s
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what we’re always looking to find more
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coverage but sometimes the limits are
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the limits this is another reason
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underinsured coverage and uninsured
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coverage are really important uh but
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also has a a bicyclist to be aware of
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your surroundings and do everything you
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can to avoid avoid the encounter in the
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first place

Kansas City, MO personal injury attorney Rachel Smith talks about the biggest challenges of bike accident cases.

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