At Jones, Childers, Donaldson & Webb, PLLC, we have extensive experience in personal injury law. Over the years, we have encountered a great deal of misinformation about this legal area—for example, many people dismiss personal injury lawyers as “ambulance chasers,” implying they look for victims of accidents and convince them to take on frivolous lawsuits.
We want to push back on this idea: if you have been injured as the result of someone else’s negligence, you deserve to get justice. In this article, our team will go over a few more things people get wrong about personal injury law to encourage you to give us a call to see how we can help you get the assistance you deserve.
- Wrong Idea #1: You Need to Pay Personal Injury Lawyers Upfront – One idea used to discourage people from suing for personal injury claims is the myth that you need to pay a lawyer up front. While some lawyers do charge for their services this way, personal injury lawyers use a different model. Instead of having you pay us upfront, we will take a percentage of your damage winnings for our services. In other words, we don’t get paid at all unless we win the case for you.
- Wrong Idea #2: Personal Injury Cases Always Go to Trial – Personal injury law is part of civil law, not criminal law, which means very few of these cases are tried before the courts—less than 2% of them, in fact. Instead, we will negotiate the case out of court on your behalf. This means that you typically don’t even need to appear on the witness stand.
- Wrong Idea #3: You Can Only Have One Lawsuit for an Accident – Lastly, we want you to know you might end up in more than one lawsuit should you decide to pursue a personal injury law claim. The goal of these cases is to get you the compensation you deserve, so our team will use multiple strategies to do so. For example, if you get hurt in a car accident, we can sue the other driver, your auto insurer, and your long-term disability insurer. Casting a wide net like this gives us as many chances as possible to get you the legal damages you need to pay for your care.