Phoenix personal injury lawyer discusses taking wrongful death cases to trial
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Hi, my name is John Kelly.
I'm an attorney.
here in Phoenix, Arizona
and I want to
talk to you about wrongful death cases.
And whether they go to trial in Phoenix
Wrongful death cases are very unique.
cases
as you are most likely aware
and they often do not make it all the
way to try
the vast majority of cases
settle before ever getting to trial.
Whether it is a wrongful death claim or not
Whether it's a
Another kind of case
Only a few cases make it all the way to the end.
through the gauntlet of all the
litigation, the pre-litigation of all the
way to try
But what you need to understand is that it's
important to prepare the case
like
it's
going to go to trial and have
an attorney who has the experience to kind
of front-loading the work
to have the right things in place.
that is going to make sure that the case
has a better chance of settling early.
Before it gets into deep litigation and
to trial
the insurance companies
know which
lawyers
prepare their cases well;
they know which
Lawyers have experience in trials taken
have taken a case to trial
like our firm has several times
and
gotten verdicts
so they understand what attorneys
are going to be in it for the long haul.
and usually if they notice that there's
a very competent attorney
that
has thoroughly prepared their case
Dotted the i's and crossed the t's on it.
They intend to pursue that case.
settled early because they don't want
to
pay
for other attorneys to defend the case
for several months or even years
being aware that in the end
There's no way out for them; they have no way
out they're
going to go to trial and get
a verdict against them
so
early preparation
is key, and
In my firm, we have investigators that
start the process with the attorneys.
talking over the case and making sure that
We have everything in place.
To make the claim correctly, we have
Lawyers that have a low enough caseload
that they have the time to dedicate
their time and effort into the driving
the ball forward on the case
And what we have is the experience to
know what we need to
move the ball
forward and make sure that we're making
a demand, and when we do that
We're going to have an insurance company.
that understand
s
We've got
a big
Demand here for
potentially millions of dollars and
We think we'd be better off writing.
that check now rather than later, when it's
going to be
potentially even larger
because they have
attorneys defending it
The client has the decision
making decisions, and I have a communication strategy
with my clients to make
sure that they
understand fully what risks there are to
go to trial because sometimes it may
make sense to go to trial if the
The insurance provider does not
View the case
We take cases all the way to the Supreme Court, for example.
to trial, and that is something that
happens, but the client is going to be
fully informed and have
that
the authority to say yes or no
There's an offer on the table.
is this
Is what we expected sufficient?
Do we want to move forward further?
Litigation and having the right lawyer
to front-load it an
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