law that requires insurance companies to disclose their policy limits after a certain set of requirements are met. Instead of making an educated guess or spending money to go out and investigate the coverage on an insurance policy, we are able to get it in a short amount of time and map out our strategies to ensure the maximum settlement for our clients as long as we stay on top of our game. By taking advantage of this law, we can have substantive discussions with our clients to (1) ensure they get the maximum amount of settlement possible from their personal injury claim and (2) monitor and/ or recommend the course of our client’s treatment so that the least amount of settlement is used to pay for their medical expenses. Could you describe a challenging personal injury case you’ve worked on and how your approach led to a successful outcome for your client? One of the unspoken strategies insurance companies use to evaluate a claim is by evaluating the claimant’s (aka our client) biographical background. When I am talking about our client’s “biographical background”, I am talking about their socio-economic standing, race, or the primary language they speak. For most of our clients, the “default” background is a low-middle-class worker of Asian or Hispanic origin who does not speak English. While this deviates from one client to another, this is the most common set of characteristics. In one particular case, I represented a middle-aged Asian woman who was rearended in traffic while she was stopped at a red light and suffered neck and back injuries. A classic fender-bender, if you will. While this is by no means the biggest case we have had in our firm, this was one of the cases I hold dear to my heart because it delves into the darker side of personal injury claims. After we made a WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM 11
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