throwaway238479
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She is expected to recover and be relatively back to normal in perhaps a month or two. There may be some continuing health complications we aren't sure yet. The driver of the truck that hit her claimed he blew a rear tire and lost control and the company seems to agree with that assessment. We have filed a claim with the company's insurance and we are waiting to hear more info I guess.
ANY info at all would be helpful as to where we should go from here, what legal challenges we may or may not face in the future, etc. anything you can share. I am extremely inexperienced in this arena.
We have talked to a friend who went through a similar scenario and they advised not getting a lawyer immediately, as their lawyer took 40% of their settlement and they think they could have netted more without him. Is this unrealistic, since any potential settlement will be much smaller without a lawyers involvement? How would we determine the highest settlement that they would likely be willing to pay?
ANY info at all would be helpful as to where we should go from here, what legal challenges we may or may not face in the future, etc. anything you can share. I am extremely inexperienced in this arena.
We have talked to a friend who went through a similar scenario and they advised not getting a lawyer immediately, as their lawyer took 40% of their settlement and they think they could have netted more without him. Is this unrealistic, since any potential settlement will be much smaller without a lawyers involvement? How would we determine the highest settlement that they would likely be willing to pay?