Fees - Wrongful Death and Serious Injury Cases
Our wrongful death and serious injury lawyers work with our clients on a contingency fee basis. The contingent fee is perhaps the one device that gives seriously injured people, no matter what their financial means, an even break in the courtroom against giant corporations and insurance companies. Contingent fee practice has been an essential part of the United States justice system for more than a hundred years. It permits every American regardless of wealth or social standing the opportunity to pursue a valid claim against even the most powerful corporation or individual. In a large measure, it has made our judicial system the envy of the world. It is no surprise that it has been under almost constant attack for years by corporations and insurance companies.
Increasingly, there have been calls by organizations sponsored in secret by large corporations and insurance companies, to abolish the contingency fee. Big businesses and individuals who want to avoid accountability for their negligent and reckless acts are pushing for special protections in state legislatures and in the U.S. Congress. These wrongdoers have initiated a less obvious line of attack on the American consumer, an attack that directs itself not of the consumer, but an easier target, the lawyers that represent them. Many of these attacks are coordinated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Without the contingency fee, many people would never be able to bring a claim to redress wrongs done by large corporations and powerful individuals. In essence, the contingency fee allows a lawyer to advance his services and time in return for a percentage of the recovery. In this day and age, due to increasing burdens placed by the legislatures on claimants, the cost of bringing a lawsuit are extremely high. In fact, almost none of our clients could afford to bring a lawsuit without the contingency fee.
The assault on the contingency fee is nothing more than an attempt by powerful interests to deny access to justice to tens of thousands of Americans who are injured each year due to another’s wrongful acts.
