Re: cleared of mold with the fog.../ chg to lawsuits

June 20, 2007

The problem being with mold cases is that they are very expensive to take to

trial. Unless you have a case where there is a lot of money in property

damages and some deep pockets to sue, most attorneys who have the skills and

expertise to take on mold cases will no longer do so on contingency.

Everything

changed in 2004 when case after case for personal injury with mold were being

lost due to the ACOEM position paper. For this very reason defense stopped

settling out their cases because they knew their chances of winning were

excellent. With the conflict of interest now exposed that took place with this

paper, more will be revealed as to how much this will affect these cases over

the next few years.

In California lawsuits are fast tracked and forced to trial within a few

years. However, in other states this is not the case. I know people who are

going on their 6th and 7th year with their (mold) lawsuits and there does not

seem to be any end in sight for them. In addition to many factors, each person

needs to weigh whether they can emotionally afford to sue.

In a message dated 6/20/2007 12:02:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

quackadillian@... writes:

The difficulty probably varies from place to place but in some places, even

if the evidence someone has is

very strong, people's lives are simply not worth enough to be worth the

lawyers time

(relative to other things they feel they could be doing with that time)

They want cases that will settle quickly... They figure their time is worth

at least $300/400 hour.

Offices, staff, their education, mortgages etc. are expensive..

This means that people with mold cases have a very hard time finding lawyers

at all. Finding a *good* lawyer is even harder.

On 6/20/07, who <_jeaninem660@jeaninem66jea_

(mailto:jeaninem660@...) > wrote:

>

> it's not really about affording a lawyer, most good lawters well do

> it on percentage of wins, contingency. the problem is finding a

> lawyer that knows enough about mold illness to know when he has a

> good case.

>

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