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I think you're at the cusp where you either go big or you go home. The only way you can get a lawyer to take this thing at reasonable cost is if you go for a fairly large award involving pain and suffering. The overhead of pressing this would simply not be worth it to get reimbursed for anything less than say $10K or so. So if you feel your case is strong and you want to go into "I'm going to see if I can make some serious money on this", then I'd go ahead. Otherwise, I'd walk.
Is your case strong? Not enough info.
If your wife is doing fine and you have other things to worry about, I'd advise you to move on. Life's short and most of us have better things to do with it than spend time with lawyers, give depositions, and spend time in court.
BTW, their seeming unreasonable attitude toward covering the deductable probably has nothing to do with the amount - they simply have a policy not to pay small amounts like this. If they did, they'd probably be admitting some fault and exposing themselves for serious lawsuits. We're a long, long ways from the simpler times when a big corporation would say, "We're sorry, let us cover your med expenses and here's a $500 gift certificate for your trouble." The lawyers and the legal system, in trying to harvest the system for their own livelihood, have robbed us of these days.
Good luck,
- Mark
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