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If you call my office after having a car accident, you’ll get a free consultation. It’s not going to cost you anything to get an understanding of the lay of the land and what you should do next. In my opinion, first and foremost, you want to make sure that your health is okay and […]
We handled a large class action against a well-known insurance company that had miscalculated total loss payments on a totaled vehicles. The case involved whether or not that insurer was paying its insureds the right amount of money when it paid out money for a total loss. Our contention in the lawsuit was that they […]
A verdict is when you go to trial, and the judge and the jury make a decision on the case and that’s your verdict. You then ultimately get it made into a judgment. A judgment will be binding on both sides unless there is an appeal. A settlement is where the two parties come to […]
It’s a tough situation when lawyers for the other side start asking sensitive questions. Questions at a deposition are by their nature going to be intrusive. If a lawyer asks what we feel to be an inappropriate question, under the rules, we can only instruct the client not to answer the question for only one […]
The defendant will use the same process as the plaintiff. They’ll ask for written documents, written questions, written request for admission, and it is a lot of work to comply. It is not a simple process. It requires thoughtfulness on behalf of the client to review the request, as well as meeting with us on […]
Typically, the attorneys who represent the client who is the lead class representative requests to be appointed Lead Counsel. If it’s a scenario where a number of attorneys file for class action, filing complaints on behalf of their various clients, it could be the first to file, but the courts also look at other factors […]
Whenever we begin discovery, the process can be very slow. Once we request a particular document, the responding party has 30 days to respond to that and oftentimes they need additional time. Consequently, it takes a long time to get prepared for trial. We caution patience throughout the whole process. The most challenging part, besides […]
It is critically important, when deciding to hire a personal injury attorney, that one of the main considerations be that attorney’s knowledge related to insurance. Knowing what an insurance company should be doing is important. More important is knowing that when the insurance company isn’t doing what it’s supposed to be doing, they are breaching […]
If a demand is made of an insurance company to pay the policy limits, and the demand is rejected, you can potentially get into a situation where you may get an assignment from the defendant against his own insurance company for breach of the insurance contract, bad faith, and failing to settle within the policy […]
When the defendant is being deposed, a client can always attend any part of a deposition proceeding if he/she so chooses. We encourage clients on a case-by-case basis to attend depositions. It really depends on the case, whether or not it is necessary. On some of our insurance bad faith cases, we have to depose […]
