You are involved in a car accident and you know the other driver was careless. You know that the other driver’s carelessness has caused you injuries. However, your injuries are not that bad. Can you still bring a lawsuit if your injuries are not serious? The Threshold Law The answer is maybe. Here is the problem. When you go ahead and bring a lawsuit in New York, involving a car accident, you have to show that you have suffered a certain level of injury. This is known as the Threshold Law. You should be able to show that your injuries are significant enough to get

Your personal injury case has gone to trial, and your attorney is in the middle of giving his opening remarks. You are thinking at the back of your mind, should your attorney be telling the jury at the end of his remarks, how much money you are seeking as compensation for your injuries. Mentioning the Value of the Case at the Outset At the end of opening remarks, some attorneys will ask the jury to award a verdict in his or her client. They do this because they want to put a seed in the juror’s mind that all the testimonies the jury is going

In your car accident case, the insurance company does not want to pay you, what you think your case is worth. What is the likelihood that they are going to increase their settlement offer as your case progresses towards trial? There is Various Possibilities when You can Reject Settlement Offer The answer is that they might, but then again they might not in regards to the title above. Every case is individual and unique. Let us say, the defense actually makes you an offer to settle the case, and you decide for whatever reason that the money they are offering is not sufficient. You have