Motorcycle accidents frequently occur because drivers do not keep a watchful eye out for bikers when entering traffic or making lane changes. As motorcycle accident attorneys, our firm has investigated hundreds of motorcycle accidents, using state-of-the-art technology to determine the cause of the accident. Our firm also has an in-house private investigator that specializes in reconstructing motorcycle accidents by looking at, among other things, physical evidence at the accident scene (e.g., skid marks, road scrapes, debris), sight distances, and other environmental conditions. We also examine evidence of the damage to the vehicles to determine the speed of the vehicles immediately prior to the collision.

Because determining fault in motorcycle accidents is often very difficult, it is critical that an investigation occur as soon as possible after the accident. In almost all cases involving serious injuries, the insurance company for the other driver will send out an investigator to look for evidence that the cyclist was at fault. That is why our firm prefers to have the opportunity to start working on these types of cases as early as possible, so that physical evidence which may be very important to the case is not lost. However, even when we are hired long after a motorcycle accident occurs, we are almost always able to piece together the evidence necessary to determine who was at fault through photographs of the scene and damage to the vehicles.

Injuries in motorcycle accidents are often serious and catastrophic. The cyclist is very vulnerable, even when wearing a helmet. Head injuries frequently occur, despite the use of a helmet. Attorney Thompson has represented hundreds of accident victims who received brain injuries and is a frequent lecturer on legal issues affecting brain injury survivors. A member of the Brain Injury Association of Maine board, Attorney Thompson is extremely familiar with the physical, emotional, and financial difficulties that face brain injury survivors and has fought for their rights for over 10 years while working on the Brain Injury Association board.

Attorney Thompson recently represented a South Portland police officer who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident and successfully settled that case.

Our firm uses the very best experts to determine the nature and extent of our clients’ injuries. Frequently the most difficult issue that we face in injury cases is how the injuries will affect our clients in the future—at work, at home, etc. Treating physicians are generally willing to provide some information about our client’s future restrictions and the future impact of his/her injuries. However, because treating doctors often do not have the time or inclination to provide a thorough analysis of the future impact of injuries on work activities and other activities of daily living, we use the best experts in the field to provide more comprehensive analysis of these issues in order to prove our cases. We find that, by providing this type of detailed and comprehensive analysis to insurance companies, we are able to settle cases favorably without having to go to court over 98 percent of the time. Insurance companies know Attorney Thompson’s reputation in court and, in the vast majority of cases, choose to settle rather than risking an unfavorable result at trial and having to pay the high the costs associated with trial.