People may tell you that the insurance company will make a reasonable offer to settle your claim to avoid having to hire an attorney to defend the case. This is simply not true. The insurance companies see this as nothing more than a cost of doing business. Also, there is an increasing trend towards insurance companies using in-house counsel, meaning that they don’t have to pay attorneys by the hour to represent them. Therefore, these companies are not saving money by avoiding a lawsuit.
There is a NO set equation to estimate the value of a claim. You might have heard that a claim should be worth three times the amount of medical bills that you incurred from the accident. However, the reality is that every case is different. For instance, if you were to break your ribs, there would be little a doctor could do to treat your injuries and your appointments would be sporadic over a number of months. However, your pain and suffering would be great. Every move you made would be agonizing and even breathing would be painful. That case would have relatively low medical bills. On the other hand, if your injury is to your muscles and soft tissue in your neck or back, you would need regular treatment, sometimes on a daily basis, while the injuries healed. Your pain and suffering would probably be considerably less than the case of a broken rib, but the bills for treatment would probably be higher. In comparing those two injuries, the bills for treating a broken rib would probably be much less than the bills for a soft tissue neck and back injury. However, the general damages for the rib injury would probably be much higher than those for the soft tissue injury. As you can see, valuing these two claims cannot be reduced to a formula. Don’t listen to people tell you how much they think your case is worth or how much they or someone they know received for an accident. Every case is unique and only an experienced personal injury attorney can offer sound advice about the value of your case.
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