Something our clients often wonder is how involved they have to be in the process of bringing a claim or filing a lawsuit. While you do have to be involved and be available to us to answer our questions while we investigate the claim, it’s not as much as many people think.

So to start off, we would of course meet with you hopefully face to face and learn about what happened to you, why it happened, how it has affected your life.

Then we would conduct an investigation and get all of your medical bills. Perhaps go to the scene if it was an accident. Take photographs. Put together a package to give to the insurance company to see if they will fairly compensate you for your injuries.

We would be in contact with you through the negotiation process with the insurance company and if we would have to file suit, we would obviously include you in that process. You would make all the big decisions, like whether to file suit, when to settle, whether to accept an offer or to decline an offer.

Once the suit is filed, your involvement is really not that much. You would have to be available for a deposition which is commonly taken in our cases. It’s a fairly informal setting where you would be in a room with a few other individuals and the defense attorney would ask you questions about the accident and about your injures. You would also have to answer written questions through discovery that we would assist you with as well.

Most cases don’t go to trial. Some do. I would say maybe one out of ten to twenty cases that we have does go to trial and if it does go to trial, then you would potentially have to testify at that trial.

But through each of these steps, we would be there right with you and before each of them happened, we would explain everything in detail, so you would know what to expect and there would be no surprises.

If you have any questions, please give us a call at 941-371-8800.