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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.

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: 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
• Useful resources
• Trauma
• Writing a complaint to Office of the NSW Legal Services Commissioner
• Moya de Luca-Leonard

Still in HTML format

• Road Traffic Injury - full story of my troubles for the last 9 years can be found here.
  • Exaggerated legal fees
  • Analysis of itemized Law Partners bill

Motivation

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):

1. how much benefit it can bring to other people?
2. am I able to do it?

How much benefit it can bring to other people?

My case. 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 left, and there will be no other.

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.