Video – Attorney Spencer Freeman Answers: Is Your Personal Injury Case Any Different From Those Cases Everyone Hears About In The News?

Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media

“One of the things that everybody thinks about when they walk into your office, or anybody’s office is that, ‘wait a minute, I’m injured. It’s going to take a long time…if not, I’ll be this way, I’ll have to deal with this forever. Why is that case that I read about in the news different than mine? Is it the insurance company? Is it the state? Everything in the news is across the country. Are there differences?”

Spencer Freeman – Personal Injury Attorney – Pierce County, WA

“There could be differences in all those respects. Certainly, the defendant, or the at-fault party, who that is, certainly could make a difference. If you’ve got the at-fault party, somebody who has very little insurance and no assets, the available money to the claimant, to my client, would be much less than if it’s a high-powered big corporation with big insurance policies with more access to funds.

Certainly, the access to funds is an aspect of it, but at the beginning of a case, at least most of the cases that I work, at the beginning of the case you’re not going to really know the severity of the injuries or how long it’s going to take to recover. I mean, some cases, obviously, you’re going to know. You’ve got some broken bones, you’ve got surgery, you’ve got things like that. Those are going to be a little more obvious. Sometimes, you’re going to have a soft tissue case where there’re not obvious injuries like that, but because of several different factors this person never fully recovers, and the value of the case is higher than one would think.”