Very different jobs arrive under one heading here, and they split three ways.
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Six boxes, about thirty seconds. You pick when to be called back, and that is when the phone rings.
Or call (504) 520-4493Very different jobs arrive under one heading here, and they split three ways. Some pages are about how a crash happened: a turn across your path is an intersection-geometry question, a sideswipe is answered by the long marks down two vehicles, a rear-end strike is a following-distance question, and a pavement failure is a notice question aimed at whoever kept the road. Some are about who pays: an uninsured or unidentified driver sends you into your own policy and a rejection form your carrier was required to retain, and low state minimum limits make the underinsured question routine rather than exotic. The rest are about proof of the loss itself, from a head injury that no imaging study confirmed on day one, to abrasion that changes appearance weekly, to bills carrying a provider privilege. Two pages cut across all of them, because comparative fault decides how much of a proven loss is collectible and prescription decides whether any of it can still be filed. Confusing these burns the weeks that decide a file: a Quarter camera overwrites, a Public Works crew patches the defect you needed photographed, and the period keeps running underneath.
Percentages, Nonparties and the Fifty-One Percent Line
Two Years, Interruption and the 2024 Change
Right of Way, Stop Signs and Signals
Custody, Notice and the Public Entity Cap
Speed, Conditions and Surface Evidence
Unidentified Drivers and Coverage Routes
Limits, Selection Forms and Economic-Only Coverage
What the Statute Requires and What It Omits
Abrasion Injuries and Permanent Marks
Operative Records and Work Restrictions
Privileges, Balance Billing and Reimbursement
Records Requests and Preservation
A left turn, lane change, driveway exit, door opening, or sudden stop each creates a different evidence pattern. The vehicle positions, damage, signal sequence, and witnesses need to match the alleged movement.
Streetcar tracks, drainage grates, uneven asphalt, loose debris, pooled water, and subsidence-related damage can affect a rider's available path. Record conditions rather than assuming the report captured them.
The at-fault driver's coverage, your own uninsured or underinsured coverage, a commercial policy, and medical-payment benefits can require different notices. The declarations page is as important as the other driver's card.
The current ordinary-injury period is two years under article 3493.1, and article 2323 now has a 51-percent bar. Government claims and special facts can add rules, so dates should be checked early.
Preserve what you can today: seek medical care, keep the discharge papers, photograph the bike and gear, write down witnesses, and keep the tow-yard information. A New Orleans motorcycle crash claim has a clock and evidence that can disappear long before that clock runs out.
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