Personal Injury Cases

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If you judged the swiftness of our legal system based solely on TV shows, you might get the impression that the average lawsuit goes from filing to verdict in an hour (or 52 minutes without commercials). For many personal injury cases, however, the reality is that the wheels of justice can turn pretty slowly. Even seemingly “simple” cases, with a personal injury lawyer doing everything he or she can to move the case forward, can take months or years to reach a resolution. This is obviously very frustrating for injury victims who need their compensation as soon as possible. It can be frustrating for me as well. There are many often unavoidable reasons why a personal injury case can take so long, but two of the bigger ones are: Discovery…show more content…
This can involve exchanging written questions (called “interrogatories”) and answers as well as requesting and reviewing voluminous amounts of documents. Additionally, most cases will involve scheduling and taking numerous depositions where the parties, witnesses, doctors, experts, and others will be asked questions under oath by the attorneys in the case. When expert witnesses are involved, they may also be asked to prepare reports. All of this can take a very long time, and that is without the parties engaging in fights about whether certain requests were proper, whether the other side has provided all of the information requested, or whether there were issues relating to the conduct of a deposition. Such fights can add even more delay to a case, but discovery is vital in any personal injury lawsuit as it can strengthen or weaken one side’s case and increase the chances of a settlement rather than the risk of going to

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