My day job is handling Bodily Injury losses for an insurance carrier, and I deal with injury attorneys every day.
The police report often means nothing to an attorney, they love throwing stuff to see if it'll stick. I see this kind of thing as often as a dozen times in a day. And in some states, it's really easy to initiate a suit, which sometimes doesn't cost the attorney much but their paralegal's time.
I many cases, it's a business decision to settle to protect your client/insured interest. Even when the other party clearly caused the loss as there only has to be the
tiniest fraction of potential for comparative negligence to make a carrier think twice about telling the driver to go pound sand.
GeorgeGaskill Wrote:
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> Perhaps, since you can sue anyone about anything,
> but usually the traffic ticket (citation) so
> prejudices the case that no one will take it on
> contingency.
-Lee
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