Are you thinking about sending an MVA case to trial?
Make sure you’ve considered the following:
- Client
- Likeability
- Credibility
- Risk tolerance and costs insurance
- Opposition
- Insurance company
- Law firm
- Lawyer
- Liability
- Contributory negligence
- Damages
- Nature of the injury
- Pre-existing health
- Physical (imaging?)
- Psychological (treatment?)
- Post-MVA injuries, if any
- General damages and deductible
- Threshold-proof damages, especially lost income
- Interest
- Nature of the injury
- Threshold
- Experts
- Participant experts and clinical notes and records
- Rule 53 experts and expert medical reports
- Offers to settle and costs
- Client offer and rationale
- Insurance offer and rationale
- Potential for award of costs
- Financial
- Retainer agreement (% of damages, % of damages or costs, costs only, hourly, weekly, fixed, hybrid, other)
- Number of weeks required to prepare for and conduct trial or cost of trial counsel
- Disbursements to date
- Anticipated trial disbursements
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Of the particular case
- Of your portfolio of cases
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