Values of Serious Personal Injury Cases
Predicting the trial value or even settlement value of a serious
personal injury case with precision is difficult. There are many
factors that can effect the value of a case. Assuming the
insurance company believes, based on past experience, that your
personal injury lawyer is ready, willing and able to go to trial, the
settlement value of a serious injury case is a prediction of what six
jurors will believe your claim is worth because serious injury cases in
Nevada invariably are decided by juries. The jury decides how
much money to award you for your injuries. Accordingly, different
juries will arrive at different verdicts under the same set of
circumstances. Jurors bring with them, just as all of us do, their own
personal biases that can either help or hurt you. Accordingly, this
unpredictability leads to a wide range of results. So for settlement
purposes, the accident lawyers and insurance companies take an average
of what they believe a jury would award. If they generally agree on
what that average is, the case will typically settle if the client
agrees.
Studies Looking at Value of Personal Injury
Cases Nationally
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