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As far as costs for similar cases, every case is different. We’ve had some cases where the costs were zero. This is because the medical records/itemized bills were free. Further, there were no other costs. We’ve had other cases, where our client had surgery, and there were hundreds or thousands of pages of medical records. In some of those cases, we hired an accident reconstruction expert or life care planner. In larger cases, the costs can add up quickly. Will You Get Less Money Than Us or Your Doctors? We will do our best in an attempt to put as much money as possible in your pocket. Our goal is for you to get more money in your pocket than we receive as attorney’s fees. We want happy clients. That said, there is a chance that we receive the same amount of attorney’s fees as you. This is much more likely to happen if you don’t have health insurance.

How was I was able to put so much money in Ryan’s pocket after my attorney’s fees in this car accident case? Because Ryan had an attorney, his employer had to reduce its workers’ compensation claim by my pro-rata attorney’s fees and costs. Workers’ comp paid around $85,000 in this case. They had to reduce this amount by my lawyers fees and costs. This resulted in an instant savings of over $28,000 to Ryan! Again, he only got that savings because he had attorney. I didn’t stop there. I was further able to get down the $85,000 workers comp lien. In the end, we only had to pay back workers’ comp around $3,000. If Ryan did not have an attorney in this car accident case, he would have had to pay the workers compensation company back over $28,000 more. And probably much more than that. This is because workers comp would not have reduced their payback claim by my pro-rata attorney’s fees and costs.

Possibly. If the injured person requests their medical records from the hospital or doctor, sometimes the charge is less than if the attorney requests them. It’s best that the injured person requests that the hospital put the medical records on electronic media (USB, flash drive or CD). If the patient requests that the medical provider give him/her the records on electronic media, the medical charges are often much lower. This is because federal law limits the amount that medical providers can charge the patient for electronic records. Do You Owe Us a Fee if We Recover Benefits from Medical Payments (“Medpay”) Coverage? No, unless we have to sue in good faith to get the “Med pay” benefits. Some auto insurance policies have medical payments coverage. The same is true with liability insurance policies for businesses or homes. The Florida Supreme Court said that an attorney could not take a fee on medpay.

Do We Charge You a Fee or Cost for Storing or Disposing Your File at the End of the Case? No. We don’t nickel and dime our clients. How do you know which attorney costs are excessive in an injury case? In my opinion, the best way to see if a Florida personal injury lawyer is charging you an excessive fee is to look at this Authority to Represent and Contingency Fee Agreement. That contract is on The Practice Resource Center of The Florida Bar. That fee agreement is not the “standard” personal injury contract. But that is only because there is no “standard” fee contract. However, if there was a standard fee contract, that is likely what it would look like. My fee contract is very to that fee contract. I do have an additional sentence that says that my representation for the personal injury or wrongful death case does not include other claims like probate, workers’ compensation and guardianship.

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He had a foot and hand injury. He did not break any bones or have surgery. My client did not have health insurance. So I referred my client to doctors who would give him client medical treatment if agreed to repay them from any settlement. He agreed and got therapy with them. I provided documentation to GEICO to support the fact that my client’s case was worth more than its driver’s $25,000 bodily injury liability insurance limits. GEICO paid me the $25,000 policy limits. At the time of the accident, Lyft had a huge uninsured motorist bodily injury limit on its policy. Lyft’s insurance company paid $45,000. Sadly, Lyft no longer has uninsured motorist coverage in Florida. Since we settled the case before a lawsuit, my attorney’s fee was 33-1/3 of the $70,000 settlement. After we settled the case, I was required to use 19% of the settlement funds to pay back his doctors. I then wrote my client a check for $33,608, which is 48% of the settlement.