After 13 years of representing cases for the Hartford Insurance Company in New Mexico, Eva Blazejewski knows what is required to represent claimants facing insurance claims successfully. It is rare to find this level of experiential expertise in a motorcycle accident lawyer! Eva’s change in focus was based on her experience; Eva is smart, aggressive, and passionate about helping New Mexicans who have been injured in motorcycle accidents receive the compensation they deserve.
Roadrunner Law Firm
2501 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Suite B,
Albuquerque NM 87104
Eva brings nearly 20 years of active civil trial experience to your case. While she was the managing attorney for The Hartford Staff Legal Office in New Mexico, she defended The Hartford insurance company for nearly thirteen years in all judicial districts of the State of New Mexico. That means that she knows from both sides, experientially, the best way to address insurance companies on your behalf!
In 2014, Eva decided to follow her heart and change over to plaintiff’s practice. That means that Eva began representing injured people all over the state of New Mexico in claims for motorcyclists and who had to face challenging insurance companies. Eva has handled cases involving injuries ranging from whiplash to fatalities, and she has helped motorcyclists across the state recover millions of dollars so they can begin the process of putting the pieces of their lives back together.
Eva takes her clients’ cases to heart and tirelessly advocates for their causes. She has substantial experience as a trial attorney, and Eva is smart, aggressive, and cares deeply about helping injured New Mexicans get the compensation they deserve.
As a partner in the Roadrunner Law Firm and a New Mexico Biker Lawyer, she is so incredibly honored to support God’s Misfitz in their efforts to serve our homeless community. Their New Mexico biker community does so much good for New Mexico’s cities and the state. Eva and her partner are proud to count these folks as their friends. They actively accept donations of hygiene items, clothing, and undergarments for bi-weekly distribution, which goes directly to members of the Albuquerque homeless community.
Eva and her firm are also proud to support the amazing work their friends in the motorcycling community do in support of the Guardians of the Children Rio Grande Chapter and Locker #505 Student’s Clothing Bank.
Eva focuses on motorcycle crashes and the people injured through the negligence of bad drivers, so when you need help because you have been injured in a motorcycle crash in New Mexico, remember that Insurance companies will cheat you out of money – Call her Today!
Do I need a special motorcycle license to ride in New Mexico?
What do I need to register my motorcycle in New Mexico?
How much insurance do I need for my motorcycle in New Mexico?
Do I need to wear a helmet to ride my motorcycle in New Mexico?
Can I ride my motorcycle with a passenger in New Mexico?
If I was partially at fault for a motorcycle accident in New Mexico, can I still be compensated?
Can I ride my off-road bike in New Mexico?
Do I need a motorcycle license for my Moped in New Mexico?
When do I need to use my lights on my motorcycle in New Mexico?
Can I have custom handlebars on my motorcycle in New Mexico?
How did you got involved with helping motorcyclists?
What are some of the things that you're involved with to support your local rider community?
Why are you the lawyer New Mexicans should call for motorcycle legal help?
What can people expect when they first call your office?
What are the most important questions people tend to ask you after an accident?
If somebody came to you and they weren't wearing a helmet, how does that affect your case?
How are wrongful death cases different?
Are there any new laws or issues with insurance that are specific in New Mexico?
Are there other cases that have stuck out with you over the years?
Do you find bias take place in motorcycle cases?
I have to start by saying I've been practicing for 20 years, and early on, I had a really memorable case, it involved a young man on a motorcycle. He was a good guy getting his degree at the Junior College here, working at the local grocery store, and he was in a hit and run. This kid flew into the air and landed on the side of the road bleeding, and this driver who hit him didn't stop to even check on him, nothing, he just took off. And I thought, "Man, what kind of a person does that?" My client didn't have any insurance, so it was really imperative that we found this driver.
I got the hit and run unit involved from our local police department; there's a special unit for hit and runs, and we got hold of some video, we got an investigator to find further video from surrounding businesses, and through the process of putting all of that together, we were able to get a license plate number and find the driver. Part of the reason I wanted to pursue the claim was the callousness of it, "How could you leave a kid bleeding on the side of the road?" Thank God that driver did have decent insurance, and the young motorcyclist was able to recover and buy another bike and, so it was a happy ending. But that's when I kind of thought, "Man, these guys, these riders have it rough sometimes."
Well, we do several things. We donate to motorcycle clubs, like the Guardians of the Children. They do a big event every year, they have a free picnic, and they give away bicycles to low-income kids, so we've always participated in that. We offer free insurance audits to any biker who wants us to take a look at their insurance policy to make sure they've got the right kind of coverage. We help the women's riding groups here by sponsoring their rides and any the T-shirt giveaways that they do.
We're in the New Mexico Motorcyclist Rights Organization. Part of what they do is they speak for two-wheeled vehicles in the legislature. Every year they do a big ride to the capital here in Santa Fe, so we've always participated in that.
And I've been an expert witness in front of the legislature for them trying to get a careless driving law passed with more penalties. We also help out with the Steel Gypsies, which is a women's riding group by sponsoring their charitable events; currently, they're participating in giving out food and sanitary items to the homeless downtown. So they use our office to pack stuff up, including our donations.
We do anything we can for the biker community, either through legal means or just donating to their charitable causes.
Well, Patrick, I like to think we're a tight-knit community here in New Mexico. I think we're a community that helps each other, and I think motorcyclists especially help each other. We're a small firm, and we treat riders like they're in our family, in our community. Heather and I personally meet with all of our clients. We go to the hospital or the home of injured riders at any time of day. Our office is right here in the middle of town, so our clients can come by and talk to us any time and actually meet with the attorneys. We really do fight hard for everything a rider is entitled to, from their property damage to the reduction of their medical bills.
We do property damage claims for riders, we will call the lienholders and make sure they know our clients have been in a wreck, and either they can't make their payment so they can get a delay for their payments, or we get all that organized with gap insurance and work to get as much money as we can for our riders. I've actually gone out to tow yards and gotten personal property off bikes when a rider can't. And I want their family to be with them in the hospital or with them at home recovering. I don't want them having to deal with trying to find paperwork to get into the tow yard to get stuff off the bike. We want our riders to feel like everything is taken care of for them as much as possible, and they can just recover and follow doctor's orders instead of talking to adjusters and being stressed out about whether they said the right thing or not.
Our phone is usually answered by our awesome staff, and our paralegal is very knowledgeable, she's been doing this a long time, it is also helpful that she speaks Spanish if someone requires that language support. She'll get some relevant information down and set the person up for a meeting, if possible, with us within 24 hours, many times, the same day. If that person is in the hospital locally, we go to the hospital or meet them somewhere convenient. I want to put their loved ones at ease that we're here, that we'll take over, talk to the adjusters, and property adjusters and tow yard people, and we'll do whatever we can to get to them quickly.
I know there's a lot of fear, uncertainty, and stress in these situations. People can't work, they don't have their transportation sometimes to get to work, or they're worried because their next bill on their bike is coming up and they're getting medical bills. So we do a lot of education with our clients and their family, so they know exactly what to expect. I feel like we really go the extra mile to take care of all the outlying things so they can purely focus on their recovery.
I think the main question that people have is who's going to pay for my motorcycle? Who's going to pay for my medical bills? What am I supposed to do now? There are people calling me; there are bills coming in. So, we want to make sure that those bills are being taken care of by insurance or if no insurance, we have a network of doctors we can send them to. We'll get that handled.
We will handle the property damage at no cost, that's something that we offer to motorcyclists because I feel like we're in there working their case, so I can probably get a better deal for them than they can, and I really don't want them talking to adjusters because I know it's a pain. We help them with property, calling the lienholders, the bank, or whoever is necessary. If we need to, we will work on getting things put on hold until the property damage can be paid, and everybody can be paid out.
We really educate our clients a lot, and we're very transparent in what we're doing. I want the mom or the wife or the husband of a rider client to have the time and energy necessary for taking care of their loved one and not stressing about talking to adjusters or signing something they shouldn't. We're with them every step. And I know it takes a lot of time just to be on hold with adjusters or just to read over what they're sending you and those bills start coming in. We don't want our clients to be calling hospitals or their insurance company and trying to figure out what's going to get paid, and what's related and what's not. So we just try to take as much stress as we can out of the situation.
In New Mexico, we don't have a helmet law; you do not have to wear a helmet unless you're under 18. It does not affect the case, except in the rarest of situations, if there is a head injury, and a helmet would have prevented it, that could be an issue; otherwise, we've represented tons of people without helmets, and we know how to deal with that, and it's not usually an issue.
We have taken wrongful death cases through litigation. You need to follow our New Mexico statutory rules for bringing a wrongful death claim and appoint a personal representative for that claim. So we're very well-versed in getting that done quickly and having all the paperwork signed so that we can speak for the personal representative, and the same thing, we really do handle everything for the person so they can concentrate on the grieving process and whatever needs to happen in their personal life next.
If there is anything else a biker needs, for example, any domestic or criminal matters that we don't handle, we have trusted lawyers and a network of lawyers and experts in those fields we can always refer people to. So we really want to be the firm for bikers in New Mexico to call whenever they have any kind of questions about any of their legal matters.
I think our courts, our Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court have been very good to plaintiffs in terms of an insured motorist's coverage. I think we have laws in New Mexico that are very beneficial to our clients. So I really, really encourage people to hire someone who is an expert in insurance law and someone who is local, because New Mexico does have different laws from maybe some other states that are advantageous for injured bikers. And the lawyers who're going to know all those ins and outs, those nuances of the law is someone who specializes in personal injury and who knows all the case law and the judges, so they know how they will probably rule on these issues so know better how to bring the case forward so that it's to the advantage of the client. We also have pretty good laws that have to do with subrogation, which is getting medical bills reduced and not paying dollar for dollar to medical providers.
Oh, boy. Yeah, we have lots of cases that leave an impression, we've actually made the local news with some of our cases one that comes to mind is a good client of mine who was hit by a lady turning left in front of him that led to serious injuries for him, he was unconscious on the scene and was taken by ambulance to the main hospital here. So we got him compensated for his bike and his injuries, which was a fight, but towards the end, we recovered a good amount for him. And then he happened to tell me that he was feeling kind of bummed out because his personal belongings were never returned to him from the emergency room, it was all his gear, his boots, his sunglasses, his grandfather's ring that he was wearing, and they were taken off in order to treat him but then never returned. He went through all the channels at the hospital and talked to HR and made a claim, but no one would investigate it or even just tell him what happened. He knew it was an emergency situation, so he knows they had to take that stuff, but he wanted to know what happened or what their procedures were.
So I got involved, called everybody at the hospital, legal department, HR administration, they ignored us, put us off for months, and so I finally filed suit over this. It wasn't a lot of money in the big scheme of things, but we just felt like it wasn't right for a big hospital to take someone to the trauma unit and have them later walk out with all their stuff they came in with missing. We listed out all the items and the time that it would take to stand in line at MVD to replace his driver's license as even his wallet was gone.
We ended up winning, and then we got sanctions for the delay that the hospital caused. So I was pretty proud of that. As I said, it was a small case in the big picture of what he ultimately got, and he never got his stuff back, but I think he felt a little bit like someone fought for him and that it may help the next person who's at the ER, maybe they'll be more watchful of people's belongings. He was really happy that we didn't simply end his case when our job was done, we went the extra mile to bring this case in small claims court to make a point.
Oh, boy. Yeah, we have lots of cases that leave an impression, we've actually made the local news with some of our cases one that comes to mind is a good client of mine who was hit by a lady turning left in front of him that led to serious injuries for him, he was unconscious on the scene and was taken by ambulance to the main hospital here. So we got him compensated for his bike and his injuries, which was a fight, but towards the end, we recovered a good amount for him. And then he happened to tell me that he was feeling kind of bummed out because his personal belongings were never returned to him from the emergency room, it was all his gear, his boots, his sunglasses, his grandfather's ring that he was wearing, and they were taken off in order to treat him but then never returned. He went through all the channels at the hospital and talked to HR and made a claim, but no one would investigate it or even just tell him what happened. He knew it was an emergency situation, so he knows they had to take that stuff, but he wanted to know what happened or what their procedures were.
So I got involved, called everybody at the hospital, legal department, HR administration, they ignored us, put us off for months, and so I finally filed suit over this. It wasn't a lot of money in the big scheme of things, but we just felt like it wasn't right for a big hospital to take someone to the trauma unit and have them later walk out with all their stuff they came in with missing. We listed out all the items and the time that it would take to stand in line at MVD to replace his driver's license as even his wallet was gone.
We ended up winning, and then we got sanctions for the delay that the hospital caused. So I was pretty proud of that. As I said, it was a small case in the big picture of what he ultimately got, and he never got his stuff back, but I think he felt a little bit like someone fought for him and that it may help the next person who's at the ER, maybe they'll be more watchful of people's belongings. He was really happy that we didn't simply end his case when our job was done, we went the extra mile to bring this case in small claims court to make a point.
If something like this has happened to you, please reach out to us immediately. We’ll review your case and provide you with a case evaluation, free of charge.
Yes, help me with my case
Be sure you have the coverage you need to protect yourself and your family from loss. Let one of our attorneys review your motorcycle insurance absolutely free today.
Free insurance auditNot sure? Discover the importance of why you need a Free Motorcycle Insurance Audit
THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR INSURANCE
We’ll take a look at it, and provide you a case evaluation, free of charge.
Start free case review
