How Do Insurance Companies Value an Insurance Claim?
The way that insurance companies value personal injury claims or catastrophic injury claims is terrible. They look at the bottom line, and they look at it from a completely cynical – I think, in many ways – dehumanizing way. They say, “Okay, what is the minimum amount of money that we can pay to get out from under whatever this problem is?” What you have to be able to do is, you have to be able to bring those corporations and those insurance companies to heel.
You got to be able to say to them, “If you don’t take care of this person, if you don’t address your defective product, if you don’t address whatever you are doing, then there is going to be an accounting, and that accounting comes in the form of a jury.” A jury is the only way that you can make an insurance company or a big corporation properly evaluate a claim. They’re scared of juries; and they’re scared of juries because they know that juries do justice, and that a big corporation is just like any individual when they sit front of a jury people. That’s the way that we force them to evaluate these cases.
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One of the nation’s top trial attorneys, Jeff Harris is an award-winning litigator who handles high-profile, complex cases across a wide variety of practice areas. He excels at securing justice for clients who have been seriously injured or killed, holding responsible parties accountable for their actions as well as their negligence.
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