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Clear answers to the questions people ask Joe Crudo most, written for people dealing with an injury or accident right now, not for other lawyers.
I get some version of this call almost every week. Someone was hurt in a crash on the 5 or the 805, they've been dealing with the pain and the doctor visits and the insurance adjuster who keeps calling, and months have
Read more →The crash is barely over and your phone is already ringing. Sometimes it happens the same afternoon. A friendly voice says they're with the other driver's insurance company, they're sorry this happened, and they just
Read more →I get calls about dog bites more often than most people would guess. Someone is out walking in Ocean Beach, or a kid is playing in a friend's backyard in Clairemont, and a dog that seemed fine a second ago lunges. The
Read more →One of the first things people ask me after a crash is some version of, "It might have been partly my fault. Do I even have a case?" I hear it in the first phone call, sometimes before they tell me they went to the
Read more →It's the first thing almost everyone asks me. You're hurt, you're missing work, the bills are stacking up, and you want a number. I get it. But if a lawyer gives you a firm dollar figure in the first ten minutes, before
Read more →I get some version of this call almost every week. Somebody got rear-ended on the 5, or slipped on a wet floor at a store, and now their back is killing them. But here's the part that keeps them up at night. They don't
Read more →I'm Joe Crudo, and I've spent a lot of my career talking to people right after the worst day of their year. A pedestrian accident is one of the hardest, because you didn't have a bumper or an airbag or a steel frame
Read more →People call me after a fall and start the conversation by apologizing. They think they should have watched where they were going. Maybe they should have. But that is not the whole story, and in California it is rarely
Read more →I've had people sit across from me and say some version of the same thing: "It was just a car accident, but the other vehicle was a big truck." They think of it as a fender bender with a bigger vehicle. It isn't. A
Read more →I grew up here, and I've driven these roads my whole life. The merge from the 5 to the 805. The bumper-to-bumper crawl on the 15 heading north at 5 PM. The blind curves in Old Town where somebody is always in a hurry.
Read more →I grew up riding in this county, so I know the roads that draw people out on two wheels. The 52 through the canyon, the coast run up 101, Sunrise Highway toward Julian on a clear morning. I also know how fast a good
Read more →It is one of the first questions people ask me after a rideshare crash, and it is a fair one. You were in the back seat of an Uber, or you were driving through Hillcrest and a Lyft ran the light, and now you have a
Read more →I get the call all the time. Someone gets hurt in a crash on the 5 or rear-ended at a light on Rosecrans, and within a few days the other driver's insurance company is already on the phone with a number. It sounds like
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