Joshua Samuel Berman

I hired Mr. Berman to handle my case for an auto collision my husband and I were in last August 2018. I worked 4 jobs and the paperwork that the insurance company was sending me was overwhelming on top of the shoulder and neck injury that I had. We hired him roughly 1 1/2 week after the accident. He ...seemed very professional and attentive so I was glad to be relieved of the burden of having to handle the claim by myself and just focus on getting better so that I could return to my jobs. He referred us to a chiropractor whom we went to for physical therapy for almost 2 months. In that time I would send emails to update Mr. Berman on what was going on with my jobs, physical therapy and any screenshots of my pay from two of my jobs (uber and amazon) prior to the accident as well as after, as he requested, so that we could track the loss of income. The pay stubs from my other two jobs I scanned and also gave in email along with a letter from one of my bosses stating when I would be allowed to return to work (after physical therapy). Things ran smoothly at this time. Once we finished physical therapy and I returned to work, we needed to progress forward with our claim and that's when things started to run less smoothly. There were a few occasions where I had sent emails with specific dates when I had returned to work to each job, but later Mr. Berman would ask me for the same information I had already sent. It happened on a few occasions and I started to get frustrated because I felt the emails I had sent with important information that he'd requested previously was just being overlooked or that rather than logging the info when I'd send it the first time he would just ask again when he was ready to use it. Once we gathered all of the paperwork he needed he remarked that there were still a few weeks left until our claim needed to be filed so he wanted to take that time to make sure he had everything, mind you, this was a little over 5 months since the accident so I couldn't understand how we needed to wait longer since I stopped my physical therapy 3 months beforehand. I knew part of the delay was the inability to get a letter from one of my managers but that was a 2 week delay tops as my managers gave me the runaround. I let it go, though I was still frustrated about having to repeat sending info. After he filed the claim it seemed like the only time I would get an update is if I wrote to check in after weeks would pass. We thought we would have had everything settled by April, but after talking to Mr. Berman in early April he informed us that it would be mid-May. We delayed a visit overseas to family and delayed moving into our new apartment because we didn't want to be overseas during the process and we also needed the funds to move when we return. After a few weeks and not hearing an update on our claim I emailed him to find out what's going on. At this time we're now staying with an Aunt and we're not wanting to rent a new place until we come back from overseas so we're needing to know when to expect things to be settled. This time he calls me and explains the end of May. We delayed our move twice already, and now we had to delay again. He explains that he's waiting on a quote from the insurance company, which I can understand isn't in his hands, so I wasn't upset about that. I was upset because he said no later than April originally and we planned our move and visit overseas to family around it. My husband also had to have a septoplasty while overseas, which the settlement was to cover. Once everything was settled and done we got our claim and settlement on June 15th and recieved our checks June 19th. It was 10 months from the time of the collision. Also, I'm still getting collection calls about the Medical Bill's that are supposed to be paid by the law office, so hopefully the collection companies stop calling soon. Between his fee and physical therapy/ medical bills I got $7.6k out of a $25k settlement.

Why i gave 2 stars, from time of the accident to receive check was total 10 months 2 days. Also retainer agreement, his fee is 1/3 which is normal but his fee taken from gross settlement. There is a huge difference between net settlement to gross settlement. It made an extra 5k loss for us from settl...ement. There are many many law firms taking the fee from net settlement. I do not reccomend this firm because you can find another firm who is taking fee from the net settlement.

Josh and everyone at his firm did an excellent job with my case. They looked at every angle and detail to ensure that I was being treated fairly by the state. Josh also fought to prove that I was not guilty until in my case rather than looking for the best deal as most lawyers seem to do. The firm is... not afraid to fight for you. I also noticed that during my case many lawyers had 2-4 people going to court that day and booked their clients in volume. Josh's firm was a little higher in cost but it is because of the amount of time they spent on me individually rather than taking as many cases as they possibly could. I have nothing but good things to say about Josh and the people who work with him at Rowe Weinstein & Sohn. Thank you!