When a person is injured in an accident caused by another party, they are entitled by law to pursue a personal injury claim to recover the losses their injuries cause them, including all of their medical expenses. Some clients believe they can only collect the co-pay amount or whatever other amount their health insurance didn’t…
Our personal injury law firm gets calls from clients who ask us what a “contingency fee” means. Contingency means recovery. The best thing about contingency fee agreements for a potential client is that the client doesn’t put up any out-of-pocket money. There are no hourly attorney fees. The only fee is the percentage of the…
What is contributory negligence or fault, and how can it kill your personal injury case in Virginia or North Carolina? Our states are two of the only four states in the country that bar a personal injury claim if the victim contributes to causing their accident. We call this contributory negligence. If contributory negligence affects…