With an agreement based on hourly rate we can directly charge you for our legal fees. This is regardless of the result of our work or if the compensation your receive is lower than expected. However, we will try to claim our legal fees from the insurance company as much as possible. The part that is paid for by the insurance company will of course not be charged to you. In most cases all of our costs are covered by the insurance company, which means that you don’t have to pay us anything. If – for whatever reason – we cannot claim all our legal fees from the insurance company, the amount that is not paid for is at your expense.
We usually advise an agreement based on hourly rate in personal injury cases where it is fairly certain that liability will be acknowledged and the (causal) link between the accident and the injuries / the damages is clear. In those cases however you could also choose a Personal Cure and Pay agreement.
We like full transparency and clear agreements. No unpleasant surprises in hindsight. It almost speaks for itself that we confirm the agreements in a written contract in comprehensible language. This is called the claims settlement contract. This way we both know what we can expect from each other.
