...000 unless the recovery justifies it. Or, the case may not justify a “pure contingent fee”, so I might require the $5000 up front, with a portion assigned to costs but agree to give you credit from an agreed percentage of a total recovery. These arrangements help you “manage” your risk without placing the entire risk on me. Unusual or “marginal” cases often have to be carefully “fine tuned” as to a fee that will let me make money and you have reas...
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...Insurance commission and possible “slap on the wrist” of the carrier. 17. Contingent Fees: personal injury litigation and claim processing can be very expensive; thus, the most common fee arrangement is a “contingent fee”. These fees may range from 10% – 40%. No fee is taken unless there is a recovery. 18. Litigation Costs: These costs include filing fees, acquisition of records, depositions, experts, travel, etc. Cost can be huge and the cost of...
...rt, 20% is ok for clear fault cases. That’s my opinion, and it works. Some contingent fee cases justify 36% to 40%. Think major products liability, such as an exploding tire, medical malpractice, with its huge litigation costs, or industrial accidents, exploding mine or gas well, with expert engineers and complexity. I am not talking of them here. Back to the reasons cases settle: with $50,000 in per person liability coverage and $40,000 in medica...
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...h protects those who have little from those who have much; and that allows contingent attorney fees, is a system that assures there will be motivated persons willing to represent injury victims. If you doubt that self interest can motivate, just check in with your State Lottery Commissioner. Another example; Historically, England stopped the high level of prisoner deaths in their penal ships sailing to Australia. Captains had been paid for the num...
...six, even seven, figures in litigation expenses, with a prospect of a BIG contingent fee. There is risk of loss of course, but these guys and their firms often “win big”. I have put $10,000 of time into a case knowing I would never get paid. Once it was $30,000 (don’t like to think about it) Those are the cases where the other side has pissed me off, or the client is very worthy, or my reputation is on the line. But, most of the time, costs MUST...
