Phoenix Personal Injury Lawyer Answers Legal Questions | Kelly Law Team

John Kelly is a Phoenix personal injury lawyer. Visit http://www.jkphoenixpersonalinjuryatt... for more information. In this Google Hangout he answers some common personal injury questions.

Question 1: I have a work related lawsuit and I believe it’s a fairly strong case. I would not like my employer to know what I’m considering while pursuing the case, in case it doesn’t work out. Is this possible? 0:42

Question 2: If I win my case, how long will it take to collect my money? 2:45

Question 3: Will I be required in testify in court, like in a criminal case? 4:21

Question 5: What should I consider in comparing personal injury lawyers?

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Transcript:
Today we're with John Kelly. John Kelly is a personal injury attorney in Phoenix, Arizona. He's agreed to answer some of the questions that were posted online. For those of you who posted those questions, you're going to get your answers right now. If alternatively, you have or if you're looking for a personal injury attorney, you can feel free to give him a call. Also, John has agreed to answer any of the questions you have directly by just simply posting them on the bottom of this YouTube video. So with that said, John let me go ahead and start off with some of the questions here. First question we had. Person asks, "I had have a work related lawsuit and I believe it's a fairly strong case. I would not like my employer to know what I'm considering while pursuing the case. If the case doesn't work. Just in case the case doesn't work out. Is this something possible? Basically to hide it from your employer?"

There is a certain amount of the case that you could hide. The initial stages of investigation is something that you can consult with an attorney. That attorney can talk to you about what the likelihood of your case being successful is, whether there's some things the attorney can do to get an investigator working on it, or experts evaluating you for your injury, to determine if that's a pursuable case. At some point, it's not going to be a secret, and you can't keep that secret when you want to actually pursue the case in the legal system, in that sense. If you actually want to actually get a settlement out of the case, or go in with a lawsuit further down, that's going to be something that going to take notification to your employer. Another issue with this is sometimes there's general rules with how soon a subject has to, a person has to notify their employer of an injury that had happened at work. If we're talking about an injury at work, it's a good idea to notify your employer at least that had that injury and that you're getting treatment for that. Then I would recommend talking to an attorney right away about, at least exploring your possibilities of what kind of case you might have. Not necessarily needing to inform your employer right away that you're pursuing a law suit.

Alright, that makes total sense. Next question we have is and I'm sure you get this one all the time. "If I win my case, how long will it take to collect my money?"

There's two ways to win your case in a personal injury case. I'm assuming one of those ways that people feel like they've won is if they settle out of court. The other way is to actually go to trial and have a jury verdict, and have a verdict from the jury. Those can kind of make the answer to it a little bit different. Generally it should happen within 30 days that you could get your money. There's a lot of other factors. There's attorneys involved on the other side that may need to get you some documentation or release form. Insurance companies, when we settle, they often have to write a check. Some of these insurance companies are very big, so they have a lot of files that they're dealing with and a lot of checks that they're writing. The other issue is that your attorney will need to put the funds, once they receive those, into a client trust account. In Arizona, the requirement is that they put that check in an IOLTA account for ten days at least to make sure that the check clears. There are some things that prevent you from getting the money immediately. But it generally is around 30 days. It can be longer though.