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One more question, my attorney want to deduct the medical bill before gave me the money. But I want the attorney just take 1/3 of the attorney fee and gave me the rest of the money, I will handle the medical bill myself. They seems don't want to do that, is any reason they have to handle the medical bill for me?


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Here is my case.

I stopped and signaled to make a left turn, a car from far behind hit the back of my car. It is 100% his fault, he got a ticket and I didn’t.
I was hit very badly, the car totally crashed and unable to repair. I was sent to the emergency room, after all kinds of check I was released from hospital about 3 hours later. I feel neck, shoulder and knee pain, you know this kind of problems usually doctors can’t tell what’s wrong. It cost about $3500. Later I visited some different doctors, therapist, and chiropractor, and acupuncture etc, total medical bill about $5500.
I hired a lawyer to represent me to deal with other party’s insurance company, now the insurance company gave me an offer for $10,000 to settle the case. (After the medical bill and attorney fee, I can get about $3600)
My lawyer said he normally would expect more money with this amount of medical bill, if I don’t accept this offer; we can go to the arbitration.

Here is the pros and cons for go to the arbitration.

Pros:
1. might get more money (but no guarantee)

Cons:
1. it takes time (another 6 month, it already takes 1 year to get here).
2. the person who does the arbitration works for the insurance company. (the court gave us 5 people to choose, my lawyer cross out 2 and insurance company cross out 2).
3. have cost ($1200)

Any information or experience will be highly appreciated!

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• 回复：请老猫帮忙看看 -單身老貓- ♂ (222 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 05:45:12

• He want memory instead of see doc. Eitherwise -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (34 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 08:47:47

• The number is not right. -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (365 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 08:44:10

• 回复：The number is not right. -elena_zhou- ♀ (45 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 13:12:31

• Then your bill is only 4500, not 5500. -jin_yin_hua- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 13:44:06

• 先看看有无后遗症， -eyehalfopen- ♂ (176 bytes) () 10/15/2008 postreply 14:16:16