Classless Lawyers

[BFritz21]

(05-05-2016, 01:03 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Sorry, but I am still very confused.

Who settled with you when your lawyer took the $200K?  Was that before everyone else went to trial?

I have never heard of letting someone off after he has been found liable just because he "wanted to appeal the ruling".  You never go to the trouble of filing a suite in the first place if you are going to drop it when the other side appeals a loss.

The driver was found to be responsible, right?  How old was he?  What was the relationship between him and the owner of the car?  How did he get possession of the car?

Settlement that he took $200k from was a from a clause in our own insurance that said, if I was hurt by an uninsured driver, we were entitled to money.  That's why I said he took it without having to do anything for it, and that's why every other lawyer said that they wouldn't take a cut.

Another appeal of the ruling probably would have taken months, and, seeing as we could have only gotten 50k anyways, we decided that it wasn't worth the time, so we let them out or else we would have to have waited while the appeal went through.

Driver was 15, and the owner of the car was his sister's boyfriend.  He bought us beer and put it in the car, along with his keys.

(05-05-2016, 01:08 AM)fredtoast Wrote: What kid of evidence did you present to the jury to prove he allowed these parties?  I am sure he denied it.  

To be honest I can not imagine an adult allowing kids to have a party in an area that he was responsible for maintaining.  Most adults know how crazy and destructive drunk kids can be.

Did I not just say that he bought us alcohol?  I'd have to go back and look, but I'm pretty sure I did.  His son was our age, and he let us because 1 kids don't just show up at a house uninvited  2  he would have called the cops if we weren't  3  he bought us alcohol  4 he let us have bondfires  5 his wife even told my mom that it was never a problem that we were back there because we weren't bothering anyone  6  he left the cemetery gates open  7  we partied in their basement when it was cold 8 he let us have concerts in the cemetery.

How could he deny any of that?

To the second point, that was exactly why we took them to trial and considered them liable.  

He set the stage and admitted that he let it happen when he could have stopped it.