How long does a claim for personal injury take?
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at
11:00 pm
I was involved in a traffic collision in Nov 08. The other party has admitted liability. How long do these cases normally take to settle. I have ongoing back trouble since the accident and my GP has said I will just have to manage the pain with meds. I can never seem to get a straight anawer from my solicitor.
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You can’t get a straight answer from your lawyer….because there is not one.
The attorney has to order copies of all your medical bills/records. He can’t say how long it will take to get that together. If it’s one or two bills…it goes very quickly. If it’s a lot….could easily take 6 months to get everything in.
Then the attorney has to review the information and submit it to the insurance company.
Once the insurance company gets the information…they review it. That could easily take up to 60 days.
If there is information mission from the settlement package….the insurance adjuster lets your lawyer know what they need.
The lawyer then gets that information and submits it to the insurance company.
Once all the information is in and both sides have reviewed the medical records….then negotiations begin.
In short….we can pull a number out of our ears and say "It should take 60 days" but that’s complete garbage and a completely unreliable number.
Every claim is unique and has to be evaluated on its own merits.
There are just too many variables. No one can give you a solid number on how long it will take to resolve your claim.
I have a friend whose personal injury (multiple fractures of left leg) case took no less than 7 years to get settled ! Whilst being less than impressed with many solicitors, they do not have a crystal ball.
During the processing of the claim there is much correspondence back and forth and this can take a substantial length of time. In my friends case the opposing solicitor took over 8 months to reply to one set of questions [which resulted in a formal complaint being made to the Law Society about him]. Your solicitor has no control over then length of time his opposite number takes to reply to correspondence.