During a job interview last week I had to giggle when the interviewer asked me how I ended up living in Minnesota after spending most of my growing years in Louisiana. I chalk it all up to a fabulous Minnesota personal injury attorney I hired in the summer of 1985.
At that time, I had just graduated from high school and overjoyed by my new found freedom. The first thing I did was buy a brand new white Volkswagon Golf, with zero miles on the odometer, and set off for the open roads to the North. I swear I must have spent eighteen hours a day in that beauty that first week of ownership, finally arriving at my Minneapolis destination on Saturday.
Everything was perfect (for a day), that is until an unnamed Pizza company driver decided that the “30 Minute or Less” guarantee that was their trademark then was more important than driving safely. Fortunately, the injury to my body was slight with some neck and back pain, but my poor VW was on life support.
The following day I looked through the Yellow Pages and came across the name of a personal injury attorney whose commercial I had seen that morning on TV. I called and spoke with the office manager who invited me to come on in and tell my story. What started off as a nightmare turned into a blessing in disguise. The new job that I was supposed to start the following Monday was not to be, or any job for the next eight months, and endless doctor visits took its place finally ending in a settlement out of court. The money I was awarded not only paid for my four years at the University of Minnesota but all repairs to my vehicle (although the paint never quite matched up after that – never go with the other insurance company’s repair shop, lesson learned!).
If it hadn’t been for that Minnesota personal injury attorney I hired, I firmly believe that the pizza company would still be using this 30-minute guarantee almost 25 years later and others would have been hurt or killed because of it. I don’t want to say that my case was the defining reason for their stopping this campaign but the cost of settling the case was certainly enough to give the company pause as to whether it was worth it or not.
No one is perfect. I understand this. But responsibility must be taken and the little guy cannot stand up for himself in the legal world without competent attorneys such as the Minnesota firm I hired. While 33% was a large fee to have given up, in retrospect I would given twice that knowing that my bad luck perhaps prevented someone else from my fate.
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