Success with personal injury claims hinges on one thing; evidence. Personal injury law seeks to make you whole again, oftentimes through financial compensation. So you need to document your losses.

The amount of monetary damages you can be awarded depends on how well you can prove the extent to which the injury affected your life. And to prove anything, you need evidence. This evidence usually takes the form of expert testimony by a medical doctor or eyewitness accounts.

The evidence you collect at the scene of the accident or soon after can boost your case immensely. It could be physical evidence or documentary evidence like police reports, photographs or video recordings of the injury event, or recorded calls placed with police or emergency services in the aftermath of the accident. You must collect this evidence early before it gets contaminated or tampered with.

Other important forms of evidence you should document include leave of absence requests you made at work after the injury, medical bills for therapy and treatment received, correspondence with your insurance company, and any records of the event that you can get from the fire department.