i know I’ve said this before but being able to get attorneys fees for first party cases is such a game changer. Initial offer $7,500. We educate out of state adjuster about the fee issue. 10 days later they offer $50k limits
in what context do yall get attorney fees in a UM case? We could get them if we prove bad faith which is very rare
There was an appellate case out of San Antonio where someone got a $5k verdict and one of the insurance companies had to be pay tens of thousands in fees. It’s still a new law but I think it’s basically if they don’t offer limits, you try the case and get a verdict, you get fees. It’s pretty tight
company that does custom modifications on cars, has a TV show about it, does not have auto coverage. this is going to be a fucking expensive lesson for them
how can the judge admonish the prosecutor to this extent, for the same shit, and not grant a mistrial?? anyway the trump rico case in georgia has approximately a .01% chance of success.
no the fulton county da's office has assuredly learned from their mistakes here and the trump rico case will go off without issue
Tbh she has no reason to stop doing what she’s doing. Getting yelled at and then nothing happening after that is meaningless
Hey dawg a put a process server in your back seat so you can get sued while you’re cruising down the highway.
Hey CF3234 aren't you our property damage guy in Florida? Did you see this on 60 Minutes this past Sunday? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-whistleblowers-hurricane-ian-insurance-60-minutes-transcript/
yes I am and yes I did. Been talking about it in the hurricane thread. Got one of these cases of my own. Carrier removed permit fees, ems costs, and lowered the price of the roof without telling the Field adjuster or my client.
It's such a different world mediating with an experienced insurance adjuster for Chubb or some other commercial carrier vs. some needle dick with Geico.
So maybe I'm misunderstanding. But if Pltf is in collision with uninsured motorist, but has 1P/UIM coverage thru their own insurer, so you can make a claim and potentially sue 1P, you don't get fees? Like a quarter to a third of my cases have no 3P coverage.
If P is in mva with an uninsured motorist and we make a demand and can’t get it settled , and go to trial and get $500k from a jury , and the policy is $1M, all we get is $500k. No fees on top.
I mean we get our contingency fee like any other case what we’re talking about is getting hourly fees when we try a first party case. So if it’s a $30k policy and you try it and have $40k in hourly fees you can get that
You get your contractual contingency fee from the client, but you don’t get a fee award from the carrier. In some states, you get the latter.
I got the cop’s body cam today in a CMV case where the driver testified (1) he doesn’t speak English, (2) he only communicated with the cop via google translate, and (3) denies he told the cop he fell asleep. He’s on video saying in English that he hadn’t slept the night before, was tired, and fell asleep.
we've started ordering body cam footage on every case where there is a police report. think we started doing it like 3-4 years ago. the amount of money we've made by doing that...
It doesn’t happen often, but I have two med mal cases where there’s police body cam footage from the scene of the event and in both instances there was a bunch of footage and dialogue that was super helpful. Funny enough, the first one is the quad case I mentioned previously where a certain infamous Florida defense firm claims they can raise both the seatbelt defense and the intoxication defense to avoid liability (needless to say, they can’t). They were so fucking ecstatic to take the investigating officer’s depo whose body cam footage was at issue and it turns out that all of the information on the video absolutely sinks their theory. Hoisted on their own petard.
In this one, the carrier pulled the defense from another lawyer after mediation. New firm amends driver’s answers to interrogatories to remove the part of his answer saying he “closed his eyes for a second” before impact. They threw lawyer one under the bus saying that he never had an interpreter and never got to review his answers. It’s in a very conservative venue, but it’s good heat.
18 wheeler pulls crazy maneuver on I-10 causes horrible wreck without touching PC and keeps going. PC is catastrophically injured. Eye witness says TT was super negligent and caused the crash. He could possibly identify TT if he saw a video of it from that night but does not remember the color of the truck that was pulling the flatbed trailer. Said it was a Semi pulling an empty flatbed trailer. Going to try to get video from welcome center on state line near where this happened. And send FOIA to Miss Department of Transportation for weigh station data from around that time. There was a weigh station nearby. And send PD to try and get video from anywhere also around there. Not loving my chances of tracking down this TT.
Client: I can’t afford to take time off to recover from a surgery Client: will you make a lost wage claim for me client: does not have a job
i had one tell me she had to file bankruptcy because of this crash one small detail: she filed bankruptcy before the crash
3 year attorney doesn’t know the difference between a pleading and a motion and filed a MSJ three days late. Told him to either withdraw it or we will respond and ask for sanctions and he was like ok go ahead and respond what a pain in the ass
I've had a Progressive adjuster tell me at least three times she wants to mediate. But when I try to schedule or nail down a mediator, crickets.
They’re generally pretty good in personal lines stuff, but their commercial adjusters are among the worst.
I've never drawn a distinction under our rules between a pleading and a motion. Here, a motion is a type of pleading. I guess it matters under the TX rules.
My experience with them boils down to two options: 1) They overpay the case or 2) Completely nonsensical position. Lucklily it's usually number one but this particular case is number two at this point.
Do yall's firms do any service projects ? Is that something a firm should be doing or is that more well suited for your private time or your philanthropic /service endeavors outside of work?
Nah I am very much in the camp of when you’re at work I would like for you to work and when you leave it’s your time and I know you’d rather do shit with family/friends/by yourself than some work thing
I'll go look into it. In practice, it has never made an impact. Maybe it's something worth looking into though.
In my case where body shop/car customization thing doesn’t have auto insurance. They didn’t file an answer for their employee who was driving because I guess they were going to try to mount an independent contractor defense. So the poor dude had to hire his own lawyer to file an answer and i called the dude and he was like yeah I asked him all the questions to determine if he was an employee and he 100% was and he will be your star witness the dude defending the company might be the worst litigator in the country