Litigation

Three Times Specials

If anything drives me crazy, it is phrases like "three times specials." Smart personal injury lawyers avoid this kind of discussion when trying to settle a case with an insurance company. Otherwise, you are just telegraphing to the adjuster that you are looking at your client as simply a number, not a name, and you really have not thought through your case. Further, the adjuster will forever mark you down as being the attorney who is not a shrewd negotiator but simply the one who requests a formula as fair compensation for his clients. For more general information on the value of  personal injury cases generally and specifically,  click here and scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find information such as the value of medical malpractice cases generally, or values for specific injuries like ankle fractures. 

Will these numbers give you the value for your particular case?  Or course not.  But they do give you information that is probative to value  that you might be able to use with an adjuster which is a lot more than you are going to get with "times specials" math.

Full post as published by Trial Lawyer Resource Center on August 17, 2007 (boomark / email).