Ignore the temptation to
accept early settlement offers (the lowball settlements won't be enough to cover the full extent of your injuries and harms).
Be cautious about
accepting an early settlement offer from your insurance company or the insurance company of any other driver involved in the accident.
Not exact matches
Don't
accept ICBC's first
settlement offer: ICBC's job is to settle
early and for as little money as possible.
Plaintiffs without Trial Insurance may be more amenable to settling
early and
accepting a less - than - ideal
settlement, simply in order to avoid incurring the costs associated with going to trial.
The urge to
accept payment
early on is a powerful one to overcome, but you should keep in mind that these
settlements rarely have the best interests of the victim in mind.
Litigants are to be reminded that costs rules are in place «to encourage the
early settlement of disputes by rewarding the party who makes a reasonable
settlement offer and penalizing the party who declines to
accept such an offer.
This in itself might persuade claimants to
accept a
settlement offer
early in proceedings instead of waiting a much longer time in the hope of recovering more in tribunal.
Nothing is worse than when our firm in El Cajon gets news that a potential client has
accepted an
early offer on their case when we are certain that we could have doubled if not tripled their
settlement.
[8] The rules on costs are intended to encourage the
early settlement of disputes by rewarding the party who makes a reasonable
settlement offer and penalizing the party who declines to
accept such an offer.
If your application for representation by our Clinic is
accepted, an advocate will assist you with the
early stages of your complaint, including exploring
settlement.
This issue depended in part upon whether, if Levicom had
accepted the first offer or reached some other
early settlement with the Swedish companies, Levicom would (as they argued) have exercised the option in October 2003 or (as Linklaters contended), they would have exercised it in
early 2001 or some other
earlier date.
If you had done a
settlement agreement like I had posted
earlier at court you could have
accepted a payment plan that would have permitted you to take payments, and if any payment would have been missed you could at that point enforce the writ.