LAWSUIT DEPOSITION

LAWSUIT DEPOSITION

 

For most people, they tend to be totally unfamiliar with the legal world, myself included.  Oh we know the common laws, but when it comes to lawsuits and courtrooms, we know very little.  After being hit by an inattentive driver, while I was stopped to make a turn, the battle began.  I don’t think we, as law abiding citizens trying to do the right thing, have any idea how many other people refuse to obey the rules.  Probably we think this because we assume the best about everyone.  Unfortunately when people don’t have insurance or a drivers license, it makes the whole accident process much more involved.  If you have ever been in an accident, you know that the day after the accident, you feel like you were literally run over by a truck.  Every muscle in your body aches.  Relief is hard to come by, even with all the wonderful medical discoveries of today.  There is always the usual pain medications to ease the pain,  chiropractors to put everything back in place, massage therapists to loosen the tight and sore muscles, and physical therapists to get us to use those sore and aching body parts.    These things all help to some extent, but they never manage to take it all away or bring your body back to where it was before the accident.   So the only alternative is a lawsuit to hopefully provide money to buy some extent of pain relief.   It seems everything the courts and lawyers do take forever—months and years to be more specific.  Basically courts seem rather scary to most people in the general public, probably because we don’t have much experience interacting with them.   We are afraid we will say the wrong thing from sheer lack of experience in knowing what not to say and what to say.  This results in a deposition being a stressful situation.  Finally, almost two years later, I sat at a deposition with two lawyers, a court reporter and the insurance company’s representative to answer questions about the last two years along with prior incidences they deemed important.  These days it can be difficult to remember what we did just last week, much less two or more years ago, but I did my best and answered to the best of my knowledge.  Now the lawyers will dissect the answers to prepare their cases, each trying to win the lawsuit for their clients.  And so the waiting begins, again.