I told them at the scene of the accident I was okay. Now I hurt all over. What do I do?

The most important thing is, go see a doctor and get better.　 There is time later to worry about the legal issues surrounding your accident. Also, getting to the doctor quickly may help your case.

It is common for certain kinds of injuries in relatively minor accidents to go unnoticed at the time. Just as sometimes your muscles don’t hurt until the day after a workout, sometimes the symptoms of a soft-tissue injury, a whiplash, or a brain injury don’t appear until the next day, or even longer. This is a well-established fact, and it should not hurt your case at all if you said at the time you were not injured.

That is, so long as your doctor is able to relate your injury to the accident. In an Idaho personal injury case, your lawyer must be able to prove that your injuries were caused by the accident. This requires that a doctor testify that the accident caused the injury.

Usually, this is easy for the doctor. If you were in no pain, and then involved in an accident, and then you had pain, and a week later you were diagnosed with a whiplash injury, it is pretty reasonable for the doctor to conclude that the accident caused the whiplash. But, the longer it takes for you to see a doctor, the more uncertain his opinion becomes. So, if you were recently in an accident and you are starting to feel pain, see a doctor.