After you’ve been involved in an accident, contacting Utah personal injury attorneys should be your number one priority. When looking for the correct personal injury lawyer, you begin by doing your research to find the attorney, you believe best suits your case. After scheduling a meeting with your Utah personal injury lawyer, you see the attorney kindly declining to take on the case even after it seems to go well. Well, how come? Although a personal injury attorney may want to help you, there are various factors as to why they could have rejected your case. Here are five reasons why a Utah personal injury attorney can decline to take on your case.
Statute of Limitations
Even though you may have an outstanding claim, you may have waited too long to contact an attorney to take on your case. A statute of limitations is the legal timer someone has to file a claim. When the clock runs out, there’s little to nothing an attorney can do for your case. The statute of limitations for personal injury cases in Utah is four years for personal injury, three for property damages, and uninsured motorists. The clock starts ticking on the day of the incident. To avoid running out of time, it’s paramount to contact a Utah experienced personal injury attorney as soon as the accident happens.
Insufficient Injury
Nobody wants to sustain injuries; however, proof of injuries can strengthen your injury case. Due to the work a personal injury case takes, it may not be in the attorney’s best interest to take on too simple a case as compensation would be too small anyway.
Responsibility
Although you are confident that the other party is at fault for an accident, evidence could prove that you were partially at fault. In a case like this, you may have contributed to the cause of the accident, called “contributory negligence”. If an attorney suspects that you were at fault, they may reject your case.
Not on the Same Page
After you have presented all available facts of the case to an experienced personal injury attorney, they will analyze the case closely and give you an idea of what you can expect on the outcome of your case. If your expectations do not match your attorney’s best analysis, you may find that it becomes increasingly difficult to work towards a common goal. If your attorney feels that there’s too much tension and you both are not on the same page, they may think it best not to take on your case.
Too Expensive
Most personal injury lawyers work for a contingency fee, meaning no upfront cost to you. The attorney only receives payment when you can successfully obtain compensation for your claim.
If, at any point, your attorney begins to feel that your case has little chance for claim recovery, they may not want to take the risk of taking on your case.
Even though there are various reasons why your case could be rejected, it shouldn’t stop you from finding the legal help you need. Contact us today so that we can give you the help you need.
