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Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury Case
Go to Knowing the Details of Your Injuries: How Important it is to Your injury CaseAn area you will need to prepare for before deposition is to know and understand the details of your injuries and medical treatment, including when you first experienced pain and to what areas of your body. For example, did you experience back or neck pain at the scene, did you chose to go to the…
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How to Prepare for a Deposition
Go to How to Prepare for a DepositionThere are several ways in which you should prepare for a deposition. One way is to be sure you understand the details of your accident including how the accident took place. You should be able to answer not just how the accident happened but where the accident occurred, the date and time, what happened when…
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What is a Deposition?
Go to What is a Deposition?Depositions are conducted fairly early into your case and are the part of every type of civil case when a person or the witness has to go to a court reporter’s office, is sworn in under oath and has to answer questions such as what happened to them, how the accident took place, what doctors…
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Why Insurance Companies Litigate Cases or Take Cases to Court
Go to Why Insurance Companies Litigate Cases or Take Cases to CourtBack in the mid-1990s, many of the major insurance companies hired a special consultant to advise them how to make more money for their stock holders. These consultants came up with a game plan to cut down on the cost of their defense attorney’s fees per case. One of the recommendations was instead of paying…
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How Social Media & Facebook Can Impact Your Car Accident Lawsuit
Go to How Social Media & Facebook Can Impact Your Car Accident LawsuitAs you know, my law firm has over forty (40) years combined experience in litigating personal injury cases. Recently, insurance adjusters and insurance defense attorneys have become very aggressive in looking for client’s posting on social media sites. Facebook, MySpace, individual blogs, and Twitter are all targets for insurance companies and their representatives to look for items…
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Settlement Offers: When to Settle, and When to Keep Negotiating
Go to Settlement Offers: When to Settle, and When to Keep NegotiatingThroughout the settlement process, your personal injury lawyer will contact you with updates on how the negotiations are going with the at-fault driver’s insurance adjuster. Don’t be dismayed by the first offer – it’s not the final word. Your lawyer will be able to advise you about whether you should accept the offer or request…
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How Cell Phones May Help You Win Your Personal Injury Case
Go to How Cell Phones May Help You Win Your Personal Injury CaseDetermining liability (who is responsible) for an accident often depends on whether someone was negligent– not paying attention. The way the law works is that if one person involved in an accident was less careful than the other person or people, the less careful person has to pay all or part of the damages for…
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How Settlement Negotiations Work
Go to How Settlement Negotiations WorkOnce your lawyer has all the facts, and the medical bills and reports are in, it’s time for the insurance adjuster and lawyer to work out the settlement. While you’re waiting for weeks or months to hear an offer, this is what’s happening behind the scenes. Your personal injury lawyer sends an injury demand letter…
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3 Odd Questions Your Car Accident Lawyer May Ask You
Go to 3 Odd Questions Your Car Accident Lawyer May Ask YouMonths after your accident, when your Tampa car accident lawyer is ready to begin settlement negotiations with the at-fault driver’s insurance company, you might find yourself answering questions you never expected. Here are three questions you may encounter that might seem to come out of left field. But being prepared to answer them may help…
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Why Lawyers Ask About Your Hobbies
Go to Why Lawyers Ask About Your HobbiesOne of the final components that a lawyer looks at when negotiating a settlement is how the accident affected your quality of life. In order to do that, the attorney has to get to know you as you were before the accident, and that can lead to some surprising questions. Lawyers will want to know…
