Handling Motor Vehicle Accident Cases is a how-to guide for handling auto accident litigation, enabling you to:
- Evaluate and investigate cases with checklists and questionnaires specifically designed for client interviews
- Understand theories of fault
- Collect and preserve evidence
- Understand accident reconstruction
- Determine how and why a collision occurred
- Interpret insurance policies
- Present and prove damages
- Negotiate settlements from a position of strength
This publication includes:
- The "ten commandments" of cross-examination
- Proven jury instructions
- Letters and motions
- Contingent fee agreements
- Requests for production of documents
- Letters accepting or declining representation of potential clients
- Sample interrogatories, requests for admission, releases, and provisions for settlement agreements
Files from real-life motor vehicle cases guide you through actions involving a rear-end impact, highway defect, municipal ambulance collision, and wrongful death.