How do I handle bias against motorcyclists in my claim?

Handling bias against motorcyclists is tricky because um here I’ll liken it to, you know, semi crashes. There’s lots of people that don’t like semi-D drivers and it might even be worse with motorcyclists, right? or you know some people have a bias even against bicyclists but I think there’s a bigger thing with with motorcyclists where you know harder to see they don’t like them on the road for whatever reason and maybe there’s just a bias on various levels with what they wear and

those sorts of things maybe maybe that they don’t wear a helmet when people think they should um you know some states it’s required but most states it’s always going to be the choice so you know I think at the end of the day when I can think back to the cases I’ve had where there’s been motorcyclists, some of those cases were road rage type situations where somebody got mad at somebody because they thought they either pulled in front of them or cut them off or went someplace they

shouldn’t have been. You need to try to make your client or the client, what I’ve found is make them as likable as possible because even they often times too um when it’s a road rage, they get they take it pretty personally as anybody would. I think when you’re on a motorcycle, it’s harder to protect yourself there. So, it’s it’s trying to figure out the facts of what happened and then explaining the facts in a way that makes them more likable by nature of trying to almost I’m going to say

simplify maybe what happened and just showing that hey, it was as simple as the motorcyclist didn’t do anything wrong. The car wasn’t paying attention. We’ve all seen the signs where you don’t look twice or think that’s the way the signs read. Um you know for motorcyclist just hard to see and trying to make the motorcyclist not the villain but make them be the victim. But you it’s part of it’s the way you tell the story and being able to tell the story in a way that takes the

motorcyclist and make them make them look better in the eyes of the people hearing the story. oftentimes is based on how you tell the story and how the how you tell the story is based on getting out early, taking the time to really learn what happened. Maybe going to the scene. Done that many times where I went to the scene myself to try to figure, okay, I don’t understand really what they told me. Let me go there and look at it. And after I do, makes a lot more sense. And it puts it just changes

your viewpoint. So, taking the time to really figure out what happened, how it happened, and then being able to tell the story in a way that makes them more angry at the people driving or the person driving the vehicle than the motorcycle, I think is really the key to trying to negate bias against a motorcyclist.