I got into an accident over the weekend due to turning outside the turn and because I went around a stalled car at the light and was tboned. Of course, I was cited, both vehicles totaled, other driver broken wrist. I'm self-insured under Florida law, which means I'm immediately liable for damage and injuries for up to 40,000. Value of other car is between 6,000 and 9,000. Treatment of a broken wrist should be somewhere between 6,000 and 14,000. Other party doesn't SEEM to want to sue, and has stated that he has no money to do so anyway. He offered for me to pay around 7,000 to handle the auto portion of the accident.
A lawyer I've called for advice in confidentiality and off the books says to give him NOTHING unless he gets legal representation and serves me, and to withdraw all funds from my banking account to prevent him or any legal help he can obtain from sizing me up and deciding if it's worth it to sue "because they can't take what they can't see", and my family is going for that, but I have misgivings. I'm all for accepting this guy's offer of buying the wrecked car and settling on that front (and having him sign a notarized document stating that he is satisfied in that resolution), then working with him with the rest of the money set aside for Self Insurance for the cost of his medical bills. I'm starting to wonder if this lawyer might just be giving me bad advice to get this situation to go to court in the hopes of me becoming a client.
A lawyer I've called for advice in confidentiality and off the books says to give him NOTHING unless he gets legal representation and serves me, and to withdraw all funds from my banking account to prevent him or any legal help he can obtain from sizing me up and deciding if it's worth it to sue "because they can't take what they can't see", and my family is going for that, but I have misgivings. I'm all for accepting this guy's offer of buying the wrecked car and settling on that front (and having him sign a notarized document stating that he is satisfied in that resolution), then working with him with the rest of the money set aside for Self Insurance for the cost of his medical bills. I'm starting to wonder if this lawyer might just be giving me bad advice to get this situation to go to court in the hopes of me becoming a client.