Third party lawsuit

1.  Background

You used to have a dispute A with another driver and his insurance.  That dispute has concluded with representation by M. 

You have a dispute B with the disability company, which is represented by G. 

You have a dispute C with the former attorney M, you potentially might hire S. 

2.  Analysis

What you need is an attorney to represent you in dispute B against G, and your attorney will initiate a third party lawsuit to bring in former attorney M. 

Your liability to disability company was caused by M's negligence.   You want to make M (and his malpractice insurance) to pay the disability company directly.   That's why the two dispute B and C should be tied together in one suit.  Ideally in this case you won't have out ot pocket expense because M should pay the disability company and your attorney cost. 

Whether S can do this, is another issue.  I am not sure why he didn't suggest the third party lawsuit.  My guess is this is too complicated because actual filing of law suit is needed and there are court motions etc.  Maybe not worth the amount you owe to the disability company. 

我隻是書本知識，一般認為執業律師有他的理由。

所有跟帖： 

• 您說的非常清楚，請教我是不是該和S還有G聯係一下問問process。怎麽能做到讓M付律師費？ -april113- ♂ (1087 bytes) () 07/09/2022 postreply 18:43:52

• 為什麽S不幫你和disability討論？ -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 04:35:21

• 他說等看保險公司讓我付多少錢。可能保險公司讓我付的多和他利益一致？所以這是我需要幫助的地方。 -april113- ♂ (50 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 10:51:17

• 所以他隻代表你和前律師那個案件，而不代表你和disability爭，因為利益不一致。 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (388 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 15:55:41

• 因為是contingency，所以保險公司要我付的越多對他越好。對我來說，我隻關心怎麽可以不用out of pocket -april113- ♂ (32 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 16:55:35

• Then get another lawyer. -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (603 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 17:00:23

• 謝謝，可能是我沒問清楚。他收費很高$750/h+稅，好像不太有耐心，所以我沒我多問。我對前律師difficult說來可笑 -april113- ♂ (707 bytes) () 07/10/2022 postreply 23:19:45

• 聽了您的建議，我問他能不能有沒有可能我不用out of pocket，這是他的回答，請問您的感覺是？ -april113- ♂ (871 bytes) () 07/11/2022 postreply 15:59:18

• have you ever taken TOEFL? or 新東方 course？ -hello2002- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/11/2022 postreply 18:35:32

• 就我有限的閱讀理解能力來說，他啥也沒承諾，就靠自覺性？可能這律師有些太滑頭了 -april113- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/11/2022 postreply 23:51:47

• 人家對你誠實你卻說人家滑頭。 -檸檬椰子汁- ♂ (299 bytes) () 07/12/2022 postreply 05:56:10

• 我都不知道怎麽說了，我上個律師保證了很多，然後啥也沒做。我現在都不知道如何判斷了 -april113- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/12/2022 postreply 14:06:30