Almost all cases have insurance available to the injured party, which requires the making of a claim against an insurance company. It is vital that you hire an attorney who knows how insurance companies handle (adjust) claims. Just as it is best to hire an attorney who worked for the IRS when you have a tax problem, it is best to hire an attorney who used to work for insurance companies when you have a personal accident/ personal injury claim. Mr. Der Manuelian worked for insurance companies for 10 years handling accident/injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, dog bites, defective products and medical malpractice. Insurance companies know him because they used to hire him to defend the very same type of cases in which he now represents the injured party. Insurance companies fear him with the result that every year he earns millions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts for his clients.
Every year insurance companies spend millions of dollars to convince you that there is a crisis in the number of personal injury lawsuits filed, that something needs to be done to curb the “frivolous” lawsuits being filed by those injured in accidents. What they don’t tell you is that the people behind the ads are the insurance companies – the very ones who stand to make even more money if the curbs they advocate are put into law. What they don’t tell you is that every year they continue to make record profits. What they don’t tell you is that the number of injury cases taken to trial in U.S. District courts fell 80% from the mid-1980′s to 2003 and that from 1995 to 2003 filing for motor vehicle accidents alone fell 30% in that 8 year span. The only crisis is in the number of attorneys willing to go to trial against insurance companies.
The courts have sided with the insurance companies by repealing the law that allowed injured parties to sue directly the insurance company of the party who injured them when that insurance company deals with them unfairly (bad faith). The legislature has failed to put into law a statute that would allow such suits. Emboldened, the insurance companies continue to squeeze injured parties into taking lower and lower settlements – or even dropping their claims. Sometimes we are the only thing that stands between them and you. We stand for you.
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