Personal Injury

If you have reached an impasse with the insurance adjuster negotiating your claim, consider mediation as a way to break the stalemate. Mediation has several potential advantages.

It allows you to sit in the same room with the adjuster, which puts a human face (yours) on a claim that is otherwise just a file on the adjuster’s desk. An adjuster may be more likely to give you a reasonable settlement when sitting across a table from you than if you remain merely a set of claim documents and a voice on the phone.

Mediation also gets the adjuster to put special effort into your claim, which increases the likelihood that the adjuster will try hard to settle the matter.

You need no documents or arguments for mediation that you do not already have from the claims process. You get a third person, to encourage a break in the deadlock. Mediation can be much faster, easier, and less expensive that the alternatives of hiring a lawyer or going to small claims court.