Legal Question in Personal Injury in Iowa

Anybody's guess.

An average settlement for a moderate injury is usually a moderate settlement. You can see I'm being intentionally vague. I don't know what you do for a living but if you were a farmer and asked how long it would take an average farmer with an average tractor to plow an average field the farmer would look at me and say, "Don't lose that day job."

The bottom line is without knowing the injury, the circumstances, the degree of fault likely to be assigned to each party, the mechanism of injury, the medical condition, the medical bills, the wage loss, if there is any expected reduced earning capacity, what the medical records say about the level of pain suffered and likely to be suffered in the future no one can answer your question. Anyone can settle a $10,000 case for $1,000. Even a nonlawyer can. In my experience even with paying a contingent fee 99% of the time you get more with a lawyer than without.