Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

what do i do when a lawyer withdraw from a personal injury case after waiting 2 years! it was said the case is a strong yet the case is too expensive eventhough the other party admitted to cause of the injuries and the doctors finding the injury due to the incident is the cause of the injury could the defendant lawyer be intimidated by the other side or could he have been payed off? Is the case really strong?

Asked on 8/18/10, 2:08 pm

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George Shers Law Offices of Georges H. Shers

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You provide much too little information for any of us to judge the strength of the case. Personal injury cases are supposed to go to trial within one year after they are filed. It can easily cost $6,000 or more to put on a relatively straight foreward injury case, as you might need the treating helath care giver and an expert to testify; normally those costs are not recoverable. Juries tend to give very little in automobile soft tissue injury cases [no broken bones]. So if you have $6,000 in costs for witnesses, $3-4,000 in unpaid medical bills [or insurance wants to be reimbursed for its medical payments], $2,000 in wage loss, a jury could award $8-10,000, which after bargainig with the lien claimants means $0-2,000 net recovery, befor taking into account wage loss. The attorney, Norther Caifornia would get perhaps $700 for three days in trial [Southern California would charge more].

It is very doubtful anyone got paid off. Your attorney silmply realized no one but hourly paid defense counsesl would make any money out of the case. Ask your atorney why he quit.

Answered on 8/23/10, 3:07 pm

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