Many consumers call our Atlanta car accident law firm asking a fundamental question; the insurance adjuster called and offered me x to settle my case, is that fair? We find that fairness really is the issue for most people. After a car accident in Georgia, they do not want to take advantage of the system, but they don't want to be taken advantage of either.
When a car accident case in Atlanta gets close to the trial date, your lawyers will be preparing a number of motions to limit the amount of surprises. A Motion is a document that lawyers file asking the Judge to take some particular action. In Georgia, Motions in Limine can be filed as late as the morning of trial and they are aimed at preventing the other side from using improper arguments or introducing irrelevant evidence during the trial.
For a car accident case, these motions often focus on other injuries, family problems or irrelevant criminal issues. Be sure to read the blog post on what criminal records are admissible at trial for a better explanation of what kind of crimes will impeach you in Georgia.
Without further ado, here is a lengthy Motion in Limine from a case we tried in December.
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High impact car accidents can cause a variety of traumatic injuries from compound leg fractures to simple concussions. Our injury lawyers spend a great deal of time discussing symptoms with our clients but one of the frustrating issues is that in order for a particular injury or disorder to be presented to a jury, a doctor must be willing to testify that to within a reasonable degree of medical probability, the injury or disorder was caused by the crash. You can have a serious injury after a car accident in Georgia, but if the treating doctors will not testify that it is medically probable that the crash caused the injury, then your case can be worth substantially less.
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There is a common misconception in the public that if you are injured in a car accident in Georgia, your claim for pain and suffering is worth two times the medical bills or three times the medical bills. This is simply not true. It may be been in the early 1980s but those days are long gone.
We have many anxious car accident victims who call trying to earnestly and honestly find some objective way to compute what a "fair settlement" is. The short answer is that each case is different; each injury is different.
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