Techniques that could be used to get a Florida car accident jury to actually give money to the injured victim
I wanted to discuss today some of the reasons and techniques that could be used to get a Florida car accident jury to actually give money to the injured victim. In the context of a car accident trial in Florida when money is given to the plaintiff it is called damages. One of the most convincing type of damages that can be used to get a jury in Palm Beach County or Broward County Florida to give money to a car accident victim is called hard damages.
A form of hard damages are medical bills, past present and future. These types of damages are awarded by a jury to try to help fix a problem that was created by the at fault driver. These damages are very rational very logical very easy to prove and was very dangerous to a defendant or defendants insurance companies in a car accidents. That's why a lot of attorneys who engage in car accident litigation spend a lot of time developing the use of hard damages. An in many instances they will settle their cases for hard damages value only.
Alternatively you could provide other forms of hard damages which may include loss of support. For example if you have any family of three and the father or the mother dies due to an unfortunate accident and the life time income from them can be considered hard damages and it can be requested from a jury in the form of hard damages; alternatively lost time at work because of inability to work due to injury or property damage are considered hard damages as well. Basically the lawyer should sit down and try to figure out how he could work up in general ledger for the client, like a damages bill, every detail every single item that the client has suffered economically as a result of the incident should be articulated in the legal action.
One of the considerable emotional forces at trial that can be used to acquire compensation for your client is the jury's anger. Many times if a lawyers get angry during the course of litigation because of an insurance companies tactics or a defense lawyer's tactics when those tactics result in unfair treatment of their client, lawyer will try to brush these feelings aside because they have somehow been told that in order to be a good lawyer or a professional lawyer they should not be emotional about their cases and they should not feel anger. I disagree with that 100%.
When representing the client your ability to get into the client's shoes and feel what they feel is the first step in being able to advocate for them and once you get a good bearing on what they're going through then it's your job to show your caliber as a professional by being able to effectively articulate that sense of on justice and harm to the jury. Many times I would dare say almost all the time defense lawyers are representing insurance companies will do things during the course of representation that make plaintiff’s counsel angry, and could make the jury very very angry because they are acts of unfair play and injustice.
Your job as the advocate in a car accident case is to make it visible to the jury, how the defense lawyer has committed acts of injustice for example blanket denials of parts of the petitioner’s complaint, without any investigation. While this has unfortunately come to be customary practice in the practice of law that does not mean that jurors will see it as a just and reasonable way to behave.
Many times defendants after committing egregious harm would refuse to take responsibility or even acknowledge that their behavior has caused devastation in another person's life not only will they do that initially but they will also do it through the apparatus of defense counsel, in deposition and even do it at trial. Do not miss your opportunity to capitalize on particularities that present themselves in virtually every trial because they are what establish the basis for the emotional momentum in your favor. It’s how you get a jury to do some right to your client and recover money which could arguably make your client whole.
Remember, it’s our feelings that guide us through life. Feelings are the essence of what make us human. It’s not about logic, logic is just a tool you use to feel better.
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