If you’ve decided your mental or emotional injury case warrants exploration of litigation, your first step is to sit down with an experienced injury lawyer and tell your story. Your attorney will then give you an overview of your case’s strengths and weaknesses from a legal perspective and, by extension, your potential...
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What if the insurance company won’t consider a settlement?
If you and your accident attorney are unable to agree on a settlement figure with the insurance company, a lawsuit can result. This means your case will be litigated in court.
The case is usually brought against the person (or people)...
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Determining whether to take a personal injury claim to trial or to settle the case is a big decision for any accident lawyer. Before making this decision, your lawyer will go over the two main differences—preparation and costs.
Preparing for Trial
Personal injury claims that go to...
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How your personal injury claim is handled depends on how big the insurance company is, how many levels of authority you will have to deal with, and which defense counsel has been retained by the insurance company to accompany them. The bigger the insurance company and the stronger the defense counsel retained, the...
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An accident attorney needs to consider and evaluate a variety of factors in a personal injury case. It is a good idea for you to understand how a personal injury case is valued.
Looking at Liability
Liability (or determining who is at fault) is a major factor...
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When it comes to lawsuits that are based on a person’s mental and emotional injuries, you should be aware that the depositions given by injured parties are extremely important. This is true because, as any experienced personal injury lawyer will tell you, photos and other types of evidence won’t do much to prove...
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Evidence of significant collision damage to your car and your personal to the jury can affect the settlement value. A professional accident lawyer will work to get you the maximum value you deserve.
Collision damage
In most automobile cases, the actual damage to the automobile could...
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In certain situations, an accident lawyer may decide that it may be more beneficial to provide a video deposition of a witness at trial. A video deposition, which is simply legal testimony that is captured on videotape with a camera, allows the lawyer the ability to play back the resulting footage to the...
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One of the tasks for your injury lawyer during the preparation of your personal injury case is to coach you on how to be a good witness while on the stand. How you act on the stand during your testimony will set the tone for the entire trial and influence how the jury...
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Your conduct while testifying in court can have a big impact on how the judge and jury perceive your case. This is precisely why your injury lawyer will prepare you for your court testimony. The more prepared you are about how to conduct yourself while testifying, the more successful the outcome of...
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