04-28-2016, 10:18 AM
(04-28-2016, 02:53 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: First of all, we had a clause in our insurance that, if someone in our family was injured by an uninsured driver, we could file suit against ourselves, which we did and obviously won. Every attorney we talked to said that they would never take a cut of that because he didn't do anything besides for negotiate a price, which wouldn't take much effort, but he took $200,000 of it. Shitty.
Contingency fees are the most common type payment in these cases, and the payment agreement has to be set in advance.
How much did these other attorneys say they would have charged to do what your lawyer did?
And sometimes "negotiating a price" is all of the work involved. Even when you go to trial most of the time the work is not proving "who was at fault", but instead proving "how much are the damages".
