Insurance companies don’t want to pay your personal injury claim. They don’t make profits for their shareholders by paying you top dollar. From the moment you make a claim for a car accident, slip and fall, work-related injury or the like, you
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Our judicial (court) system is adversarial. That means that, unlike Alternative Dispute Resolution options such as conciliation or mediation, it is not based in cooperation nor compromise. An attorney’s job is to fight for the client’s rights. By virtue of both sides
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I can’t tell you how often I hear that a victim of personal injury fails to pursue their rights for fear of having to “go to court.” What most people don’t realize is that the vast majority of personal injury claims (even
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Every dog owner thinks that their dog is harmless. They could never imagine their dog hurting somebody. But dogs, even our favorites, are animals with instincts and often times their owners put the dog in bad situations thinking, “My dog would never
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Many people hesitate to bring a claim when they are injured by someone else, because they worry about financially harming the person. But, there are very few circumstances in which a person must pay a claim out of their own pocket. That’s
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A traveling salesman who gets into a car accident; A construction worker who falls from scaffolding; A delivery driver who gets bit by a dog; An in-home healthcare worker hurt while lifting a patient; an office administrator who trips on an extension
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Most attorneys work hourly. They get paid whether they do a good job for you or not. That’s not how we work at Orlando & Associates. We use a “contingent fee agreement.” That’s the official way to say, we only get paid
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The phrase you need to understand is “mode of operation.” Grocery stores used to operate in the mode of having a store clerk get your groceries off the shelf for you. Now they operate in the mode of self service. Grab a
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I represented a good man with two kids who worked hard at multiple jobs to support his family. He isn’t rich, but made good money and benefits at his job. In good weather, he liked to ride his Harley to work. He
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I used to give an educational lecture to each graduating class from our local driving school about the basics of what to do when you get in a car accident. I’d give them each a disposable camera to keep in their glove
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