A personal injury lawsuit can take different periods of time for each individual case. There is absolutely no way for us to tell you what that may be, and part of that is because certain firms will litigate a case more ferociously and make sure they cross every t and dot every i before they step into that courtroom for a trial if it ever even gets to the trial. Because typically speaking, if you're doing that, the other side does not want that case tried, because they know you have everything that they don't want you to have.
Now, that can take time because it creates motion practice and a voluminous amount of court appearances and struggle and fights and grind, but that's what we do here. Now, there's other times where it's a smaller policy or even a bigger policy, and the injuries are so grave or so openly obvious that warrants the policy limits right away because the negligence is also so openly obvious.
80% of Injury Claims are WORTHLESS Because of This
Most personal injury claims are worth very little i'll explain why now i know what you may be thinking i see billboards everywhere that show huge settlements .
here's the deal those big settlements are not the average settlement often the advertised settlement is one of the lawyers best settlements they're showing you their best work i heard a great saying at a personal injury seminar over 15 years ago it still holds true .
today the saying is when a plane lands it doesn't make the news this means that common events do not make the news thus you are not going to see the most common settlements on billboards or on the news or tv if they were i wouldn't have to make these videos.
i could be at a resort sipping a pina colada can you please bring me another one let's start by looking at soft tissue injuries these are injuries where you have pain but you don't have a broken bone or tear in your ligament or tendon examples of soft tissue injuries are pain in your neck your back your shoulder or your knee on your best day.
you're typically looking at a 25 000 settlement however this assumes that six things happen number one someone else is clearly at fault for the accident number two there is a lot of damage to the vehicles assuming it's a car accident number three you got medical treatment shortly after the accident number four your out-of-pocket medical bills are big number five the other driver has bodily injury liability insurance or you have uninsured motorist insurance number six you're dealing with one of the better insurance companies.
for example i represented oh dallas and her son in a car accident she and her son were rear-ended i settled each of their personal injury cases for 25 000 but that was only because they had all six of those factors.
in their case number one another driver crashed into the back of the car that oh dallas and her son were in number two there was a lot of damage to the vehicles number three they took an ambulance to the hospital which of course means they got treatment shortly after the accident number four they didn't have health insurance so their out-of-pocket medical bills were big number five the other driver had bodily injury liability insurance number six we were dealing with a good insurance company
aaa auto club south and there's another factor that pushed the at fault drivers insurance company to pay 25 000 to each injured person here the per accident policy bodily injury liability limits with 50 000 this means the most that the insurance company had to pay to all the injured people combined was 50 000 that insurance company made the decision to pay the claim and be done with the case.
if there is a limited insurance limit and several people who are making a claim it puts pressure on the insurance company to settle faster now getting a 25 000 settlement for soft tissue injuries usually is your best day on the flip side most car accident settlements are small a few years ago.
geico's confidential documents were revealed their average payout was about fourteen thousand dollars for personal injury it gets worse if there is little damage to the cars involved in the accident and you just have pain in your neck your back your shoulder or your knee you might not get more than one thousand dollars or two thousand dollars or so that's because juries often don't award much money for pain and suffering compensation if you just have pain but no broken bone or major problem juries .
usually don't award money for injuries that you can't clearly see on an x-ray or an mri and this is especially true if there isn't much damage to the cars involved in the accident but that's not it in a no-fault state like florida you often need a permanent injury to get a penny or more for pain and suffering but it doesn't stop there many drivers are uninsured or carry the state minimum .
bodily injury liability limits this is especially true now with inflation hitting hard if you have a broken bone your best stay is likely a 105 000 settlement this is because the settlement value of pain and suffering for most broken bones is worth much less than a hundred thousand dollars insurance companies know this that 105 000 settlement amount assumes.
five things number one someone else is clearly at fault for the accident number two the other driver or liable business has bodily injury liability insurance or you have uninsured motorist insurance number three the insurance company that you're dealing with is average or better number four the doctor says in writing that your caused or worsened your arthritis and you may need a future surgery again the 105 000 figure is likely your best settlement.
outcome for a broken bone where you don't have surgery i settled a car accident injury case for over a hundred thousand dollars where my client had a broken leg and his doctor said that it worsened arthritis that he had before the accident the doctor said that he may need future surgery if his knee instability worsened.
once i sent the doctor's note about the future surgery to the at fault drivers insurance company they increased their offer from around fifteen thousand dollars to eighty-five thousand dollars most cases where you have a broken bone settle for way under a hundred thousand dollars if a doctor puts a plate or rod and screws in your body due to the accident.
the full value of pain and suffering is usually at least a hundred thousand dollars or more I'm talking about if a doctor puts a plate in screws in your wrist your leg your arm or another body part i've settled cases like this for over three hundred thousand dollars where my client just had one surgery but in these cases that.
i settled for over three hundred thousand dollar or more either one or two things happen the driver a person who was at fault had a big bodily injury liability insurance policy limit or my client had a big uninsured motorist insurance limit.
on their auto insurance policy in many cases you aren't so lucky if a surgeon drills several plates or screws into your body the full value of your pain and suffering is likely over one million dollars or more for pain and suffering brain injury and wrongful death claims can each be worth over one million dollars after an accident you can use several tactics that may get the insurance company to pay you thousands of dollars more .
Car Accident Settlements in New York | NY Personal Injury Lawyer
Car accidents can be very expensive between damage to your car hospital bills time off work physical therapy and long-term pain and suffering or disability the costs can add up quickly one of the most common questions we as personal injury lawyers .
get is how much compensation will i receive every case is different and there's no way to say with certainty how much a person will get for their injury but in this video i'll go over some of the factors we use to estimate how much a victim might get in a settlement or verdict where does accident compensation come from in the vast majority of cases someone injured in a car accident .
will end up dealing with a car insurance company new york has a no-fault car insurance system which means that every car insurance policy comes with personal injury protection or pip coverage pip covers your injuries no matter who is at fault pip settlements are easier to calculate pip only covers what the law calls economic losses .
which include medical bills lost time at work and physical therapy so figuring out what you would get from your pip policy just involves adding up your medical bills and what you would have made if you'd been able to work instead of being at home or in a medical facility recovering from your injuries what if pip isn't enough pip has some specific.
limits the default policy limit is only fifty thousand dollars meaning unless you paid extra for your coverage you can never get more than fifty thousand dollars plus pip doesn't cover things like pain and suffering disability lifestyle changes or emotional trauma this means pip may not provide you with all the compensation you'll need if pip isn't enough to cover your cost you'll need to sue the other driver .
and collect from their car insurance policy's bodily injury coverage these sorts of settlements are much harder to estimate than pip amounts the main factors in determining how much compensation you can get are how much fault the other driver had in the accident how severe your injuries are and the other driver's insurance policy limit most personal injury cases end in a settlement not a trial so we usually don't need to prove to a jury that the other driver was at fault however insurance companies.
mainly settle because they're afraid of losing at trial the more likely it is that the other driver was at fault the bigger the settlement will be the other big factor is how severe your injuries are usually insurance companies measure this by medical bills a settlement will generally be based on the dollar value of your medical bills multiplied by a number between 2 and 5 to compensate for things like pain and suffering the more life-changing the injury the higher the number will be used as a multiplier while insurance companies.
normally use software to calculate the settlement a good personal injury lawyer can usually negotiate up from there finally the other driver's policy can limit your compensation insurers won't pay out more than their contract requires them to and the other driver probably won't have enough money to pay out of pocket unless they happen to be wealthy who should you contact if you've been injured in a car accident if you've been injured in an accident and you need help getting compensated contact rosenblum law for a free consultation today.
we understand the difficulties you're going through and we'll do our very best to walk you through the process make sure you get as much compensation as possible and answer any questions that you may have along the way
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