When it comes to car accidents, understanding the legal landscape in Southern Utah can make a significant difference in the outcomes of insurance settlements and personal injury claims. At McMullin Injury Law, we handle a wide range of cases each month, including those with unique challenges and varying degrees of complexity. Here, we share some June 2025 case results for McMullin Injury Law that highlight how our firm navigates these situations to get the best outcome for our clients.
Understanding Motorists Claims and Serious Accidents
In one of our June 2025 case results for McMullin Injury Law, our clients—a mother and her adult daughter—were involved in a serious accident while driving back from a family visit. They encountered a situation all too common on the roads: a driver who failed to yield during a lane change, causing a chain-reaction collision. Unfortunately, the at-fault driver fled the scene, complicating matters further.
Since the responsible driver was unidentified, we filed an uninsured motorist claim under our client’s insurance policy. This type of coverage is crucial, as it allows your own insurance company to compensate you as though they were the at-fault party. Through our dedicated legal work, we secured a $250,000 policy limit settlement.
However, medical bills exceeded this amount, raising a common question: what happens when medical costs are greater than the settlement? Here’s where your attorney’s negotiation skills come into play. We ensured that health insurance covered medical expenses initially. Then, utilizing subrogation rights, we negotiated with the health insurance provider to reduce the reimbursement amount significantly, maximizing the settlement our clients retained.
Navigating Minor Collision Settlements
Not every case involves significant injuries or settlements, but even minor accidents, like one involving a father and son at the Bloomington Roundabout, require careful handling. Roundabouts can be tricky for drivers, and in this instance, a failure to yield led to a minor collision. Although injuries were not severe, they incurred ambulance, ER, and chiropractic bills.
We successfully resolved their claims, resulting in settlements ranging from $17,000 to $19,000. Even in minor accidents, having an experienced Utah personal injury lawyer ensures prompt and fair financial compensation for damages incurred.
The Importance of Legal Support after an Accident
These cases underscore the need for skilled legal assistance after a car accident in St. George or anywhere in Southern Utah. Whether dealing with an uninsured motorist claim or navigating minor accidents involving insurance settlements, having professional support from a seasoned car accident attorney can profoundly affect your case’s outcome.
June 2025 Case Results for McMullin Injury Law
Understanding your rights and options following an accident is crucial, and McMullin Injury Law is here to guide you every step of the way. If you or a loved one has been injured in a crash in Southern Utah, don’t hesitate to reach out. We offer free consultations to discuss your situation and the best path forward. Contact us today to learn how we can help achieve the results you deserve.
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“ Hi, I’m Andrew Spainhower with McMullin Injury Law, and wanted to give you our biggest and smallest case results for the month of June. These are results that we got for people right here in Southern Utah after their car accidents with insurance settlements. The biggest case result we were able to get in the month of June was an adult and her mother and they’re driving, and actually there was snow on the highway that day, and they’re cruising back from visiting other family members on Christmas. A third car, another car on the highway, fails to yield on a lane change and hits another car, and it pushes that car into our client’s car.
Our client was then spun, crashed into the wall at high speed, suffered some pretty bad injuries. This is an interesting case because the first car that’s actually at fault for that, they fled the scene. They weren’t involved in that second crash, and they’re gone. And so we had to do it as an uninsured motorist claim on the insurance of our own client. Your insurance will step in in that situation and take care of you as if they were the at fault party to make things right for your injuries. We’re able to get a $250,000 policy limit settlement on a case like that.
One other interesting issue on that case is that the medical bills from the hospital stay were greater even than the $250,000. A lot of times people have questions about what happens there. What we do is we get all the medical bills covered by health insurance first, and then when we get the settlement, health insurance has a right to get their money back that they paid called subrogation rights.
So, your attorney will then negotiate with the health insurance carrier to get huge discounts on how much of that settlement is paid back ,so that our client was able to keep as much of that $250,000 as possible.
The smallest case in the month of June that we were able to get resolved was for a local father and son cruising through the Bloomington Roundabout.
We’ve all been in that roundabout. Sometimes people do crazy things in roundabouts, and another car just failed to yield, negligent lane change, merged right into ’em, knocked them into the middle of the roundabout. Fortunately, they were okay, only minor injuries, but we were able to get those cases resolved for 17 and $19,000.
They had an ambulance and ER bills and some chiropractic physical therapy bills, and they’re doing a lot better.”
