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The purpose of this site is to help people to deal with trauma, especially with road traffic injury and dealing with insurance company, and to avoid needless suffering I am going through.

Information on this site

Road traffic injury
- Story: 2015-03-30 road traffic injury, My short story, Assessment Conference, Book, Diary 2026, Podcast.
- Process: Personal injury claim process, Legal fees, terms Road Traffic Injury vs Accident, Court cases for personal injury and negligence (examples Briggs v Hillier 2025 NSWSC 1021), Searching for legal information, How to write a statement
- Complaints: OLSC (lawyers), ICAC (corruption), Ombudsman. Unfortunately the only thing these organisations did was to shield related individuals from accountability. Last option Challenging lawyers misconduct in court.
- Solicitors to avoid: Law Partners - Gillian Potts, Moya de Luca-Leonard, Slattery Thompson - Peter Livers now named Bechara Slattery.
- Help: Legal help, Finding solicitor, Journalists, Sharing the experience
- Evil to avoid: QBE, McInnes Wilson Lawyers - Timothy Ceballos, prepare to deal with lies, fraudulent reports and actions by government official that can by explained only by corruption.
Trauma
Tools. Calculators: Income loss, interest claim legal fees. User restricted: Email list, Document Bundle Creator.
To-Do (working on now: Skundas gydytojų akreditavimo tarnybai, Misrepresentation by Peter Livers, Case against Peter Livers)
Other: Cycling, For laughs, IT tips, Australia, Site technical details.
In Lithuanian: dealing with Sulutės hospital staff misconduct that led to Ona Stonienė death. Šilutės ligoninės darbuotojų veiksmai privedę prie Onos Stonienės mirties, Prokuratūros pranešimas dėl tyrimo nutraukimo.

Contacts

Please write to road.traffic.injury@gmail.com

I am especially interested in learning about two things:

other people experience. I believe there is a lot to learn about and the official information that you are able to find might not be enough.
about the good lawyers (specializing in personal injury law or dealing with exaggerated legal fees). I found exceptionally difficult to find lawyers who are trustworthy.

Copyright

While the site and information in it is for everyone to read and to learn from my experience and hopefully to avoid same or similar problems or find a way out of it, none of the content of this site should be copied or used somewhere else without prior written permission by Dr Alfonsas Stonis.

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-The purpose of this site is to help people to deal with trauma, especially with road traffic injury and dealing with insurance company (QBE - empire of evil). My goal is to share my experience and knowledge I gained going through this terrible ordeal, so that other people can avoid needless suffering I am going through.
+The purpose of [[My Wiki:About | this site]] is to help people to deal with trauma, especially with road traffic injury and dealing with insurance company, and to avoid needless suffering I am going through.
-Hi, my name is Dr Alfonsas Stonis. I created my own site many years ago. The goal was to share some useful information, mostly from IT sector. During the last several years it was attacked many times and ended up being down most of the time. One day I will restore it. So, now this site has two domain names stonis.info and roadtrafficinjury.net. My main focus is recovery from road traffic injury and all information on this site is about it.
-I am migrating to MediaWiki again. For now my focus is about the current task: [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/legal_fees.html exaggerated legal fees]
-This site is my about terrible road traffic injury I suffered on 2015-03-30 and my attempts to restore my life. There are many things I learned and I wish I found that information online when I got injured. So, I am posting the most useful information here. I hope it will help someone. The end goal is to have step by step guide how to navigate this difficult part of your life after road traffic event (or any other traumatic event).
 == Information on this site ==
-* [[Diary]]
+* [[Road traffic injury]]
-* [[Useful resources]]
+** Story: [[2015-03-30 road traffic injury]], [[Alfonsas Stonis personal injury claim - short story | My short story]], [[PIC Assessment Conference 2023-06-28 | Assessment Conference]], [[My story| Book]], [[Diary]] [[Diary 2026 continued| 2026]], [[Podcast]].
+** Process: [[Personal injury claim process]], [[Legal fees]], terms [[Road Traffic Injury vs Accident]], [[Court cases for personal injury and negligence]] (examples [[Briggs v Hillier 2025 NSWSC 1021]]), [[Searching for legal information]], [[How to write a statement]]
+** Complaints: [[Writing a complaint to Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner | OLSC]] (lawyers), [[Complaint to Independent Commission Against Corruption | ICAC]] (corruption), [[NSW Ombudsman | Ombudsman]]. Unfortunately the only thing these organisations did was to shield related individuals from accountability. Last option [[Challenging lawyers misconduct in court]].
+** Solicitors to avoid: [[Law Partners personal injury firm | Law Partners - Gillian Potts]], [[Moya de Luca-Leonard solicitor | Moya de Luca-Leonard]], [[Peter James Livers solicitor | Slattery Thompson - Peter Livers]] now named Bechara Slattery.
+** Help: [[Legal help]], [[How to find a good solicitor | Finding solicitor]], [[Investigative journalism | Journalists]], [[Sharing the experience]]
+** Evil to avoid: [[QBE]], [[Timothy Ceballos | McInnes Wilson Lawyers - Timothy Ceballos]], prepare to deal with lies, fraudulent reports and actions by government official that can by explained only by corruption.
 * [[Trauma]]
-* [[Writing a complaint to Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner]]
+** [[PTSD symptoms]]
-* [[Moya de Luca-Leonard]]
+** [[Ways to get help]]
+** [[Daily functioning tips]], [[Suggestions that did not work]]
-== Still in HTML format ==
+** [[Trauma related resources]]
-* [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/road_traffic_injury.html Road Traffic Injury] - full story of my troubles for the last 9 years can be found here.
+** [[When you cannot cope]]
-** [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/legal_fees.html Exaggerated legal fees]
+* [[Tools]]. Calculators: [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/income-loss-calculator.php Income loss], [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/interest-calculator.php interest] [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/claim-calculator.php claim] [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/legal-fees-calculator.php legal fees]. User restricted: [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/email-list.php Email list], [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/php_document_bundle_app/php_document_bundle_creator.php Document Bundle Creator].
-** [https://roadtrafficinjury.net/law_partners_itemized_bill_analysis.html Analysis of itemized Law Partners bill]
+* [[To-Do]] (working on now: [[Skundas gydytojų akreditavimo tarnybai]], [[Misrepresentation by Peter Livers]], [[Case against Peter Livers]])
+* Other: [[Cycling]], [[For laughs]], [[IT tips]], [[Australia]], [[Site technical details]].
-== Motivation ==
+* In Lithuanian: dealing with Sulutės hospital staff misconduct that led to Ona Stonienė death. Šilutės ligoninės darbuotojų veiksmai privedę prie [[Onos Stonienės mirtis | Onos Stonienės mirties]], [[Prokuratūros pranešimas dėl tyrimo nutraukimo]].
-I got injured on 2015-03-30. This then I struggled with injuries. It has been very difficult and painful way. For more than 8 years I suffer in complete misery, and it could have been very different. I needed support that I was not able to find while I tried to find it very hard. There are many things I wish I knew then. I do not think my story is unique. I think the lessons I have learned can help many people. I still need help. I so want to tell in my desperate attempts to find help "if you help me you will help not only me, but also all the people who will benefit from my experiences". I lost 8 years of my life, that were meant to be the best years. It is a crushing fact. However, I am trying to reframe/remake it so, that it would be very expensive learning experience, that I can use helping other people.
-There were 2 important questions I had to answer before starting this project (creating a guide how to recover from road traffic injury):
-# how much benefit it can bring to other people?
-# am I able to do it?
-=== How much benefit it can bring to other people? ===
-<strong>My case</strong>. I was very highly skilled software developer. I have PhD in computer science. All got cut short. For 8 years I live in misery did not earn a single cent. While I would be easily earning $200k per year. I have about $300k expenses related to insurance claim with QBE. This took enormous toll on my health. I got miserable compensation: $100k for loss of income for the last 8 years. Even in very pessimistic calculation expenses were $200k to high and compensation (including other components) $300k to low. So, total difference of $500k. However, I would not go through this suffering even for $100M. That is my life, and there will be no other.
-According to [https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/statistics NSW Transport] there has been 9582 serious injuries (hospitalizations) on NSW roads over the last 12 months. I assume vast majority of them go through insurance claim process at least for medical bills. Maybe some of them have different insurance company, maybe only QBE is so nasty. However, I think it is more likely that others cause problems too. I have very bad impression about personal injury lawyers. Unfortunately, all lawyers I have been involved were bad. Because I had problems with QBE and lawyers, I contacted many firms and found only one who seemed to be trustworthy and few potentially good, but I did not communicate with them long enough. I have to find it, but I also seen statistic on some brochure that about 60% of people who had road traffic injury develop mental health problems adding to their problems dealing with insurance. The problem is that it seems that over time personal injury claims become closed area where even at the level of NSW personal injury lawyers, insurance lawyers and government official know each other. They develop (business) relationships and start making deals, that in time become corruption. So, even hoping that about half of injured people do well it still leaves about 5000 people who go through terrible process.
 == Contacts ==
-Please write to road.traffic.injury@gmail.com
+Please write to <strong>[mailto:road.traffic.injury@gmail.com road.traffic.injury@gmail.com]</strong>
 I am especially interested in learning about two things:
 * other people experience. I believe there is a lot to learn about and the official information that you are able to find might not be enough.
 * about the good lawyers (specializing in personal injury law or dealing with exaggerated legal fees). I found exceptionally difficult to find lawyers who are trustworthy.
+== Copyright ==
+While the site and information in it is for everyone to read and to learn from my experience and hopefully to avoid same or similar problems or find a way out of it, '''none of the content of this site should be copied or used somewhere else without prior written permission by Dr Alfonsas Stonis'''.