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How can we help? To help you determine whether you have a claim that would benefit from our help, we provide an initial consultation-review without fee. If we are going to work for you, a retainer contract is required. Our contract describes the help we provide, and how we get paid for giving that help. Generally we act on a percentage-recovery basis, also called a contingency fee.
If you have received an offer from an insurer or if you want a second opinion on a case with existing legal counsel, we can provide a review-assessment. Such reviews-assessments do require a fee for service retainer agreement.
Upon acceptance of your cases, professional resources will be focused upon identifying the unique issues of your case and pressing maximum recovery for you. No one can remedy the full devastation of serious injury. We can recover the financial resources necessary to help put your life back together.
Our firm prepares all claims with attention to detail. Because of this, many cases do settle without the need for a trial. If court attendance becomes necessary, our clients are prepared. We take the “unknown” out of the process and work with our clients every “step of the way.”
Will we take your case? Cases are limited to matters of serious and significant loss or important safety issues. Yet, injuries can result in greater harm that it first seems, and delay in obtaining legal advice on optimistic assumptions can prejudice your claim. So except for the most obviously minor injuries resulting in no loss of earnings or loss of function, we encourage contact. All cases are reviewed on the bases of merit before acceptance. The firm strives through personal service to take the "worry" and the "unknown" out of the litigation process. We work with you and for you.
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What is the value of your case? Monetary recovery is determined by the extent of fault or liability, and the extent of the loss or damage that can be proven. Timely investigation, careful risk assessment, and forceful advocacy are essential to determine the full value of any case. It is not usually possible to give any kind of value estimate without taking these steps.
What does it cost? It costs nothing to discuss your case. If your case merits our services, a contract employing our professional resources will be finalized. Terms and fees are designed to be fair, both to the firm and to the client. Fees can be based upon a percentage of damages as success related or contingent -- payable only upon recovery. Disbursements for necessary medical and expert reports, court filings, etc. are extra. As with a “Parts” and “Labor” contact, disbursements are a legal term for the expense of the “parts” required to support your claim. Disbursements include vehicle owner searches, court fees, medical reports, and other expenses necessary to developing a claim properly. We typically recover these costs in the final settlement award additional to recovery of damages. In the meantime, these are a budget item. If you have financial difficulty, assistance with disbursements can be arranged by special agreement. Litigation, like life generally, involves some degree of risk, but we manage these risks intelligently and with our client’s best interests first and foremost. Most of our clients face no significant risk of ultimately bearing litigation expenses, and those that do are advised of such risks before significant expenses arise.
Can you afford it? With significant injury you cannot afford not to have the help of a lawyer.
If you are having financial difficulties, we can often help arrange financial support to cover the costs and expenses of making your claim. We’ve also been able to help client get treatment beyond what MSP or ICBC will pay when its needed most by providing our promise of payment out of funds recovered upon completion to care providers. Examples include obtaining timely MRI examinations, obtaining psychological counseling and attendance at pain management clinics.
To ignore serious injury to yourself or a loved one means a voluntary assumption of all future consequences.
How long does it take?
Many cases are settled without the need for a trial. No case should be settled unless and until there is a good indication as to the nature of future consequences and the cost of dealing with those consequences. Insurance companies often seek to force a premature settlement. However, we do not recommend settlement of any case until all injuries have stabilized. The future risk and consequences are a key concern. To settle without a realistic and clear picture of potential future risk and consequences is to settle blind. Sisett and Company does not believe in settling short on what is full and fair entitlement. We do our best to recover funds for our clients as soon as possible, but not at the risk of leaving our client’s short for the future.
These materials have been prepared by Sisett &
Company for general information purposes only and are not legal advice.
Any information provided is not a complete and up-to-date statement of the law
in British Columbia.
Legal matters can be complicated. For professional advice on the law as it applies
to the facts of your situation.
A personal consultation must be made and our professional services retained.
