I had the good fortune of being referred to Richard Adler via word of mouth from my chiropractor. She was concerned that the mild brain trauma that I incurred in a car accident would need someone skilled in that subtle type of injury in order to make the best case for me. I later found out that she w...as entirely correct in her thinking.
He did a very thorough and professional job in guiding me in our efforts to support my case and when the time came, he prepared an excellent demand letter for the insurance companies. Both of whom settled via his negotiations for the full policy limit amounts without the cost or effort of a trial.
Having read other legal briefs before, I was impressed with the level of knowledge, detail, preparation, persuasiveness, and thoroughness of his demand letter which reflect the talents of the man who prepared it.
Although my case is not one of the larger ones he has dealt with, he gave it his full efforts to drive it to a successful conclusion. Now that we have settled and although his fee is complete, he continues to negotiate with the medical providers to reduce their subrogation claims on the settlement in order to help me get the most net proceeds from it. An extra effort for which I very much appreciate.
Overall he did a fantastic job which greatly exceeded my expectations. I’m a very satisfied client and would recommend Atty. Adler to anyone who needs a top notch personal injury lawyer.
Background:
About 3 years ago I was involved in a car accident that left me with some back, neck, shoulder and head injuries with my car totaled. Admittedly, it could have been a lot worse as most of these injuries were on the mild side. As a result of the concussion I had in the accident, I was left with a mild traumatic brain injury which made me feel dizzy, confused, and somewhat unable think straight for months afterwards.
I initially thought I’d just shake it off and get back to life. After 4 months, I discussed settlement with the offender’s car insurance. In that discussion, I decided I had no idea what was going on regarding rights and legal terminology and figured out that the insurance company would probably take advantage of my naivety to lowball me as they were in the process of doing on the car settlement.
I got a word of mouth recommendation for another local PI lawyer. While this person was OK and did send me to some good medical providers, he has somewhat of a low tech brute force type style that I thought would be unsuited for a mild brain injury representation. He did convince me that I would be substantially better off with a lawyer representing me than going it alone.
As mentioned above, I was steered to Atty. Adler’s web site where I discovered his deep knowledge and expertise in handling brain injury claims. In fact, he’s written a solid easy to understand primer on the subject which I would recommend to anyone who has had a head trauma.
He and his assistant, Mary Ellen, communicated with me the plan. Mary Ellen often reminded me for follow ups and other medical appointments that I may have forgotten or neglected without her timely reminders. Although it took longer than I expected at first, I now know that he was building up a solid set of medical documentation on my various problems so that he would have the full story to be able to make the best case for me before he even approached the insurance companies.
Once all my medical issues were fully defined, he prepared the demand letters and set my expectations regarding the possible size of the settlements. For instance, he thought that we might get some resistance from the insurance companies regarding some fine points that might necessitate our reaching a less than maximum settlement. Somehow, he was able to quickly negotiate over any of their objections to reach the maximum settlement without any involvement on my part.
In the end, he negotiated a settlement with the offender’s insurance company and my insurance company (for uninsured/underinsured motorist) for both full policy