Could You Use AI Instead of a Personal Injury Lawyer after a Car Accident?
The typical aftermath of a car accident can be a very difficult period. Physical and emotional injuries can cause significant pain, and dealing with an injury or insurance claim on top of that process only adds to the stress levels. Most people turn to professional legal help at this point – but being quite expensive, for some it isn’t an option. However, today, there is another way.
The growing rise of vastly knowledgable AI agents has not left the legal field untouched. You can now visit AI-powered legal platforms that are becoming an efficient and less costly alternative to hiring injury lawyers after a car accident. Although they have limitations, these tools are powerful and very capable of assisting with real world results – as more people are finding out every day. This article will look at everything you need to know about using AI legal assistance for personal injury claims after a car accident.
The Barriers to Traditional Legal Help with Car Accident Claims
For many people with less obviously significant injuries, it can be difficult finding a legal professional to take on a personal injury claim after a car accident. Many firms decline to take on cases under a certain projected value. This goes for injuries that are seen as hard to prove and may have low chance of succeeding in a claim, to the reverse where the claim is very obvious but of low value.
However, today, AI-powered legal tools have bust open this situation. Every day, AI services like Mighty.com are helping people maximize their personal injury pay-outs at their own pace and at a fraction of the cost of a human legal professional.
Previously, finding a lawyer willing to take on your case, and working out exactly what fees it will entail, could be almost as stressful as the accident itself. Today’s AI tools are open to the budget of almost anyone – and once engaged they never turn down at least trying to help with a case.
AI tools also only have a single upfront cost, or a clear monthly subscription fee. Lawyers’ rates can vary wildly depending on the workload and complexity of the case. Some – but not many – even charge for consultations, before deciding whether or not to take a case.
How AI Tools are Changing this Situation
To be clear, AI tools are not a like-for-like replacement for a lawyer in a real-world way. They cannot (currently) file paperwork for you, appear in court or produce evidence.
However, what they can do is guide you through the initial process of looking at your claim. An AI legal tool will can give you a ballpark idea if your claim is worth proceeding with, and what you will need to have to do so.
If at this point, you decide you need professional help? Well you may have already saved hours of time, and probably significant amounts of money, consulting with various law firms and waiting for them decide and reply to you. When you speak to a firm, you’ll have a clear and precise picture of your own claim ready to bring to the table before negotiating any prices.
If your claim is simple enough to process that a legal professional might not even be required, the AI tool will also advise you as such. It may even ask questions to determine if you have the time and ability to process the claims yourself – with it’s help – depending on your injury and circumstances.
Involving AI in this way, before even commencing a claim, can save you tons of time, money and stress. AI assistants are available 24-7 for instant replies, meaning you can work on the claim around your schedule or even injury recovery.
How AI-Assisted Claims Typically Work – The Process Explained
If you decide the claim is simple enough to file yourself, your AI legal platform can also help immensely along the way. While the claimant is responsible for filing and communication between parties, these tools can:
- Suggest required evidence and help you organise it
- Identify missing information
- Generate claim-related documents
- Define legalese you don’t understand in a clear way
- Summarise return communications and highlight key information
The AI can even track deadlines and claim stages for you. If you don’t understand something, they will be available for instant one-on-one consultation 24/7. These tools are trained on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of both successful and unsuccessful injury claims and the often tick-box nature of this kind of thing suits AI very well.
However, it is important to note they can make mistakes. It is worth thoroughly checking over your information and that in the documents it gives back to you to ensure they all match up. But in some cases you should be doing this with a legal professional helping you anyway.
Being available for instant replies also means you can speedily clarify if you think the AI has made a mistake, and it is very capable of correcting itself and the documents provided if there were errors.
For straightforward liability cases that make up low to mid value injury claims – as long as claimants are comfortable with doing some paperwork – AI assistance can prove invaluable. Right now they are opening up the process to more and more people, and they’re only going to get better into the future.
