As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I sometimes encounter those who wonder whether personal injury attorneys file so-called “frivolous” lawsuits on a regular basis. Someone posed that question to me recently online, so I want to give my answer.
This is the second post in a series regarding personal injury settlement mill law firms. In the first post, I provided a general overview of how settlement mill law firms operate. Very generally speaking, settlement mills are personal injury law ...
Last week, I stumbled upon a very enlightening law review article about the inner-workings of some of the largest personal injury law firms in the country, past and present, written by Nora Engstrom, a Stanford Law School professor. Ms. Engstrom performed a rare in-depth investigation of what she labeled personal injury law firm ...
I have wracked my brain thinking about my blog post today. So I hope you will really listen.
First, I’d like to clarify that attorneys are ethically bound to be honest. And I take that obligation very seriously. Besides, I cannot stand sales pitches, so instinctively have only ever given any of my clients or potential clients truthful, well-intended advice. In other words, you really should believe me when I tell you:
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There are essentially two ways for a law firm to handle your personal injury case: (1) have you work primarily with a personal injury lawyer throughout your lawsuit or (2) have you work primarily with a case manager or paralegal, particularly during the early stages of your case (when evidence development could not be more critical to the ultimate value of your claim). I cannot think of any advantages to the second approach, other than increasing the revenue of the ...
Continue Reading →Understandably, many personal injury or auto accident plaintiffs want to know how much their case might be worth. Unfortunately, there is no easy or definitive way to answer that question. Frequently (although not always) injury claims involve auto accidents, truck accidents, or motorcycle accidents. In those cases, the insurance company of the other driver and/or the claimant’s own uninsured or underinsured vehicle insurance coverage must pay any valid claim.
Have you ever wondered what a car accident case that causes a brain injury might be worth? Well, the reality is that the value of car accident / brain injury cases can vary widely depending on a variety of factors, such as how much insurance coverage is available (this is huge because very often the coverage ...
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Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, unless you work for the insurance industry, you really should be appalled by Governor Rick Scott’s latest episode of trampling all over the rights of Florida’s hard-working citizens. Florida’s new PIP law undoubtedly hurts all consumers, Republican and Democrat alike. In case you have not heard, Rick Scott signed a new PIP law on March 10, 2012 (or more accurately he approved amendments to the existing PIP law, most of which ...
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