What If There Are Conflicting Stories of the Accident? | Personal Injury Q&A with George Jebaily

If I'm in an auto accident and there's conflicting stories, the officer put that both of us contributed or neither of us contributed to the accident so they're trying to say that I'm partially at fault, what happens? So, the liability in South Carolina is called comparative negligence and so the first thing we have to do is immediately come seek legal advice, making sure, and we have this happen a lot, where the officer may have noted as both as contributing or neither one as contributing, there's conflicting stories, and clients have come in to see us and we've been able to go out, get video, and prove that, in fact, it was 100% the other person's fault, it was not our client's fault and we've been able to capture that evidence. So, the sooner you get in to see us, the sooner we can get started, the better likelihood there is that we can get confirmed information that who is at-fault and who is not at-fault but even if there is conflicting stories as you say, in South Carolina, in order to be able to recover, the person who got injured who's making the claim can't be more than 50% at fault so if a jury were to determine that the injured person, our client, was 75% at fault, there would be zero recovery. On the other hand, if a jury were to determine that, our client, the injured party was 25% at-fault, then the total verdict would be reduced by that 25%. Of course, there's no magic number when something initially happens. The officer doesn't say well you're 10% at fault or 20% at fault. The best way to protect yourself, the best way to make sure the truth comes out, the evidence is supportive of your version of what happened is to come see us right away, let us do that thorough investigation for you, let us capture the evidence before it gets stale that way we can protect you and you can protect yourself to make sure that you get the best result possible.