A friend of mine is currently in a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for a slip and fall accident that resulted in a severe injury to his back. He went to get out of the wheel chair before leaving the store and he slipped and fell to the ground. There was soap in the chair. They took him to the hospital and they said he had fractures in his back. He spent 3 days in the hospital. The problem is he has admitted to have drank 2 beers that day, to a nurse in the hospital. Now his lawyer is not even trying to fight. He said to settle for a lot less than his medical bill are. They have no proof of alcohol consumption except a nurse saying he had said it. They never ran a blood test on him. And it has been 2 years since the fact. This man is 48 and still has a hard time dealing with his back pain. Is there any way to have the fact that he had drank 2 beers thrown out or prove that it has no bearing on the case? Thank you for your help.
The problem is that this lawyer is telling him that he needs to take 5000 and be happy with that. His bills are almost 20000. This lawyer represented another one of my friends with a motor vehicle accident and kind of did the same thing with her. She had injured her back and ended up getting only a quarter of her medical bills paid for. The other lawyer had found out that she had seen a doctor previously for complications with a epidural. But the injury from the accident was not even in the same place as the epidural problems. And one was a problem in the muscles around her back and one was actually with her spine. This lawyer didn't even tell her. She went up on the stand and was blind sided with questions about it. They never even had any records of the previous injury brought into court.
euro_son
He should proceed with the lawsuit. Sorry I don't know much about Missouri laws here, but the word of some nurse is meaningless.
my avatar is hot but I'm not
Nurse's word means nothing, get another lawyer. Get a personal injury attorney with some teeth.
grump56
Soap in the chair? If the lawyer doesn't think he can win, he proably can't. Beleive me, if there was even a chance of winning, he would be in it for the money. I am not sure youa re hearing or telling, the whole story.
Cindy C
*if any of you answerers check up on these, i'm the other friend*
He don't care what you make, because he's already made enough off of other people to have a brand spankin' new Mercedes SUV. I'm pretty sure that my lawyer was friendly with the other lawyer. I was sitting there at both my deposition and at trial looking at them just shoot the breeze as if they were neighbors, like WTF? and he's just a small town guy. Him and his partner and paralegals have the one office in this small town, he probably don't know how to deal with situations like these!
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