Insurance settlement? asking lawyers or people that have been through the process before?
In december a drunk driver hit me and my fiance. the insurance paid our medical bills, and for the total of his car. and then we talked to a lawyer. he said for our kind of case he advised us to just fight with the insurance company for a settlement for all of this which we could probably get ourselves five thousand and he could get us six thousand five hundred but after his fee of one third it wouldnt be worth it to us. my question is that i mostly need advice on how to do this. he said to have the chiropractor write us a nice letter i think of what he did to us and how it has helped i think. and for us to write a letter and say how this has affected us and will affect us and then start by asking for twenty to twenty five thousand. this was the guys third dui also. thanks
- Me and my boyfriend both made seperate claims and have different claim #s, and they gave him about 00 for his car… was that his settlement? or can we still go forward with the insurance company about our bodily injuries and such??
the reason the lawyer told us to go about it ourselves is because he said that it would be more benificial to us. If we could get ourselves 5000, which is what he said he thought we could do, then he could probably get us 6500. but after his 1/3 fee, then we would get less than if we did it ourselves…