What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? IN
My father was involved in a serious accident (T-boned) by semi who swerved into a turn lane to avoid hitting the driver in front who stopped for a red light. Semi traveled thru the intersection in a turn lane and hit him right in the door.
Medical bills at this point are in the neighborhood of 200-250K after two weeks in the hospital (airlift and crainiotomy) and anticipate another 100-150K in therapy in the comming months (speech and physical).
Getting ready to meet with the family attorney's partner in the firm who specializes in personal injury.
My biggest concern is will the bulk of the potential case just be medical bills on the order of 300-400K? He has unisured/underinsured coverage as does the CDL driver. I worry that if the bulk of the case is just medical payments, our family would be left "holding the bag" as a contingency fee arrangement will just eat into bills that should easily be paid by the auto insurance companies and then health insurance (who would recover anything 1st from a settlement)
If the bulk of any claim would not the the "slam-dunk" payment of hospital bills, then a contingency arrangement makes more sense as it would not eat into what needs to be paid to the various hospital service providers who saved his life.
Meeting with the attorney this week, and just want to be prepared.
My father was involved in a serious accident (T-boned) by semi who swerved into a turn lane to avoid hitting the driver in front who stopped for a red light. Semi traveled thru the intersection in a turn lane and hit him right in the door.
Medical bills at this point are in the neighborhood of 200-250K after two weeks in the hospital (airlift and crainiotomy) and anticipate another 100-150K in therapy in the comming months (speech and physical).
Getting ready to meet with the family attorney's partner in the firm who specializes in personal injury.
My biggest concern is will the bulk of the potential case just be medical bills on the order of 300-400K? He has unisured/underinsured coverage as does the CDL driver. I worry that if the bulk of the case is just medical payments, our family would be left "holding the bag" as a contingency fee arrangement will just eat into bills that should easily be paid by the auto insurance companies and then health insurance (who would recover anything 1st from a settlement)
If the bulk of any claim would not the the "slam-dunk" payment of hospital bills, then a contingency arrangement makes more sense as it would not eat into what needs to be paid to the various hospital service providers who saved his life.
Meeting with the attorney this week, and just want to be prepared.