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Car Accident with a 3 month old baby. How much is my claim worth? Should I wait to settle? What if baby has unseen injuries?
Without a doubt you should get additional medical care if you have not gotten relief so far. The suggestion you see an orthopedist is an excellent one, but you may also want to consider a neurological consult. If you have a family doctor, he or she can probably refer you to someone trusted. As for possible injury to your baby, don't even consider settling any claim on behalf of the child without a pediatric consult and careful thought with the help of good counsel. You really need a...
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My dautghter was involved in a car accident with a drunk driver and now we have to pay the total hospital bill.
A lot of the answers already given are good ones. But none of the lawyers who have responded have said a word about recovering money from the tavern or taverns that got the other motorist drunk. There is a law called "The Illinois Dram Shop Act" under which you can recover about $62,000 for your injuries BEYOND what Allstate is willing to pay. Anyone you support is entitled to up to another $68,000+ for loss of means of support or loss of society under The Act. Lots of good personal...
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I live in IL and 1-21-12 I had a car accident and hit a lite pole during a snow storm. My car may be totaled .
Any finance company will work with you to refinance your loan so as to buy a new vehicle or to buy a replacement used vehicle. But you are going to have to expect to have larger payments because the interest on your old loan is not going to be forgiven unless you had one that allowed for prepayment without penalty - no finance company I know of has allowed this since the Middle Ages. If your insurance lapsed, you are going to have an even tougher time of it if the lapse took place at the...
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I was in a car accident and might end up being sued. Will they be able to take away my primary residence?
With all respect to the Massechusetts lawyer, even if you were stinko drunk, you can have your liability discharged in bankruptcy in Illinois as long as a judgment doesn't include punitive damages. You need to consult with a lawyer about this at once. Any Illinois licensed Avvo lawyer should be able to help you if he specializes in Personal Injury work. Mr. Sigmond is right; your facts given are far too few to give you an accurate answer. You need to contact someone ASAP, however. Free...
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Totaled car holder car
Mr. Hoffman gave you an excellent answer with a perfect example, so I won't go much farther. The insurance policy your friend had only pays for the value of the car - no more. As long as you were given permission to drive the car, you didn't even need to be "...on the insurance." There is a clause in every policy in Illinois and in Georgia where I am licensed called "the omnibus clause" that covers everybody who drives with permission. So your friend is certain to get at least the...
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Injury from Car Accident - What to do if the lawyer took money from a car accident injury case for himself?
Pennsylvania lawyers have no business answering this question. I would have no idea where to go with such problems in Pennsylvania and would never answer such a question in that state. You need to go to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois which is located at One Prudential Plaza, 130 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago, IL 60602, and make a complaint of this lawyer. You can reach the A.R.D.C. at www.iardc.org on the Internet. They will put a fast...
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Other party in auto accident filed a claim with MY insurance but not her own? Should I file one with her insurance company?
The statement you gave was not under oath. Hire a lawyer if you were hurt. File suit. You will give a deposition when suit is under way, and that will be sworn. It it you can tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God, and that will be that you had the blinker on. You should have been represented from the get-go, but you weren't. This is a good reason to hire a good lawyer on day one even if you aren't hurt. My advice is just practical. Donald Nathan www....
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Can i sue a tattoo place that messed up around my tattoo?
Any lawyer specializing in personal injury work would take your case on a contingent fee basis; that is, he would work for a percentage of the recovery. You don't need money to hire a lawyer. The bigger question is whether the tattoo artist did something that was wrong. The fact that you are not pleased with his work doesn't mean that he failed to do his job right. You need to consult with another tattoo artist to determine whether the one who did your tattoo violated the standard of care....
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Bought liability insurance from car rental company. The rental company and I was sued but I only received summons 5 months later
Assuming the party who filed suit was over 18, any lawsuit filed less than two years after the date of the accident was filed in time. If the other party was under 18, that party had until he or she reached his or her 20th birthday within which to file. Failure to exercise reasonable diligence in service of process after suit is filed can be the basis of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit, but five months delay is usually not enough to give a court a basis to grant such a motion. This is a...
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How do find I out if money is due to me from a motor insurance co that I didn't own?
Simple answer if you live in Chicago. Go to the website of Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Follow the prompts for your name as a party to see what litigation you've been involved in during the last 20 years or so that are in the public record. Then look up any such cases in the computer to see what details you can glean. If you get none of interest, you can always go down to the Daley Center and get a file pulled. If it's an old one, it may have to come from a...
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