Can he take 33.3 of my rightful benifits that I earned by being timely on my auto insurance policy? Now the doctor is billing me for the difference. Is this ethical?
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Can he take 33.3 of my rightful benifits that I earned by being timely on my auto insurance policy? Now the doctor is billing me for the difference. Is this ethical?
That’s why you’re supposed to read what you sign – all attorney’s do this!
You should have only settled with State Farm for your medical bills and your attorney fees – then you would have gotten all of it!
You obviously hired an attorney to help you with your claim. In these type of cases, you don’t pay the attorney anything if you don’t win your case. On the other hand, if you hire an attorney to represent you and you win, the attorney will usually get 25-35% of the settlement.
This is the price of hiring an attorney. You do better than you would have done on your own, but you don’t get 100% of your settlement.
Don’t you think your attorney deserves to get paid for his work? Didn’t he explain the concept of a “contingency” to you before you signed the representation agreement?
Yes. If you are not suing for personal injury damages it is a terrible mistake to hire a lawyer. Abraham Lincoln once said “In a case over a pail of milk, the lawyer getsthe cow.”
Of course it is ethical, how do you think he makes a living?
Sounds like you got a lawyer to represent you against your own insurance? Not too bright, look what it cost you.
Usually what happens is you sue for a certain amount, the attorney takes his 1/3 and you get the rest. What the attorney should have done was paid the rest of your medical expenses and then sent you the difference. Did you not sue for pain and suffering? if you have private insurance this could have been used also to cover some of the cost.
Did you get a lawyer after you were having problems collecting from State Farm, or did you just get a lawyer right away?
They don’t work for free, you know.
My Cousin got hurt on a mac machine at a bank. The bank offered her 200 dollars to settle. My friend is an attorney and got her 12,000 dollars. I think it’s usually worth getting an attorney. You could have paid the attorney up front and hourly instead of having him work for nothing until he got you a settlement.