If you have been seriously injured in a car accident, one that took place in Ontario, then you have the right to file a lawsuit. That means that a judge decides the amount of compensation that you deserve. In order to increase your chances for winning that lawsuit, you might want to hire a lawyer.
Suppose that you cannot afford a lawyer, what can you do?
You have the right to consult with and hire a personal injury attorney. That member of the legal community normally gets paid by means of a contingency fee.
What is a contingency fee?
That allows an attorney to work for a given client, with the expectation of that the hired lawyer will get paid when the client wins the case, and has the necessary funds. The size of the contingency fee, some percent of the client’s compensation, must be stated in a document that has been signed by both the client and the same client’s lawyer.
What factors work to determine the percent of the client’s compensation that gets handed to the client’s lawyer?
• The complexity of the claim that has been made by the client. How many charges have been directed at the defendant?
• The nature of that same claim. Is this a special sort of personal injury case, such as a medical malpractice case?
• The extent to which the expenses relating to this particular case have been handled by the client’s attorney.
• The extent of the financial recovery enjoyed by the plaintiff/client.
• The cost of that recovery, in terms of losses, such as medical expenses.
• The chances that the client-attorney team will be successful, and win a fair compensation for the client.
The overriding factor in a determination of what percent of the client’s award should be shared with the appropriate lawyer.
That agreed-upon percent must be fair to the client. If the plaintiff can expect to receive only a small compensation package, then the plaintiff’s attorney should not be getting a large percent of that small package.
On the other hand, if a given Personal Injury Lawyer in Corner Brook has covered most of the expenses that surrounded his or her client’s personal injury case, then that fact ought to get reflected in the percent of the compensation that goes to the generous legal lawyer.
Lawyers that need to handle a complex case must devote time to gathering a great deal of evidence. For that reason, such lawyers have reason to ask for a larger percentage of their client’s compensation. Those scenarios demonstrate the way that a determination of the percent of an award should appear fair in the eyes of the plaintiff/client. As suggested, each case is different; no two of them are alike.