Hi I’m Tony Castelli, a Cincinnati Personal Injury Trial Attorney.  Today I have a legal message for you about the two biggest mistakes that I believe personal injury victims make.

Mistake number one is accepting too little on their claim.  Mistake number two is wanting too much on their claim.  Let’s talk about mistake number one and how that occurs.  That usually comes about when the person represents themselves, deals with the insurance company, has no idea what their case is worth and believes what the insurance representative tells them when this is what your case is worth, you’re not going to get anymore; and if you hire an attorney he’s going to take a portion of your recovery and you’re going to get less.  

What happens is in a lot of cases is that people take a pittance compared to what they really should take.  The other scenario is they hire an attorney who is not a trial attorney.  Who doesn’t want to go to court and wants to make a quick settlement.  In that case again they can be settled with a low ball offer.  The second mistake is they want too much, and this happens because people’s emotions get in the way, they know they’ve been harmed and they know how this has affected them and they think that the jury is going to award them a lot of money.

And in some cases juries award a lot of money, but not what you think that they will award.  And the experienced personal injury attorney does jury verdict research, he’s also got his own bank of jury trials that he tried similar to yours and knows within a range what your case is worth.  So my advice to you is to seek the help of a good personal injury attorney and when he gives you advice, listen to it.  Have a great day.