Legal Question in Personal Injury in Massachusetts

Re: underage car renter

You can only obtain one full and complete recovery for your damages. Suing additional parties does not necessarily mean you collect more money. Those other parties get a dollar-for-dollar set off for amounts paid by others, so if you're already fully compensated they can lose the case and pay you nothing.

If the amount offered by the insurance company is sufficient, accept it and release all parties. If not, then don't. You need to really understand whether you have a right to sue an underaged (19?) driver's parents. Where did you get that notion from? What is the legal responsibility of the rental company? Is this what someone told you at the corner bar? You really need to get some advice on this from a real live attorney and not one in cyberspace. If your attorney is not doing the job, you can speak up and try to get answers or exercise other options. I'm not certain he's not doing a good job for you. You may not be the easiest client to deal with, coming up with this stuff. Whomever told you that girlfriends have loss of consortium claims under MA law should really try to see if he or she can get a refund from the law school they attended. Good luck but you really need to understand how very little you know about all this. Respectfully, JBS