We came to them with a fairly straightforward case wherein we were the middle car in a three-car accident. We were struck from the rear and pushed into the car in front of us. The rearmost driver took full responsibility at the scene, and the police officer noted that his report would agree with that. My wife was injured in the crash, and we mostly engaged a lawyer to help navigate the medical paperwork in order to make sure we recovered all costs we were able. They took our case, and we began the process. The rearmost driver's insurance company took fault--all was going well.
Then that insurance company changed their minds (apparently, we were redirected to another adjuster who handles claims wherein someone has retained a lawyer). Their insurance company attempted to claim, based on the word of the front most driver, that our (middle) car was the first to cause the accident. This is absolutely not supported by the evidence, the statements at the scene, or the police report. It is relatively straightforward to show that we were not the initial cause.
When Stein Sperling heard this news, they immediately deemed the front driver as "credible" and began discussing whether or not they could continue our case. A few days later, after several days of poor and stressful communication, they said they were dropping us as a client. The reasoning, essentially, boiled down to "this is no longer a straightforward case, and trying to prove what actually happened is more trouble than it's worth to us."
I cannot emphasize enough how disappointed I am with this law firm. They claimed the situation was too unusual and complicated to explain in court. (It was not--I myself wrote up a detailed explanation of the seemingly "conflicting" accounts this morning in one page.) They were willing to drop us before they even saw the police report, or heard any statement from the driver who originally caused the impact. Clearly, this is a firm who only takes the easy and profitable wins and doesn't care about their clients. read more
