Personal Injury Resources

New York City is thinking about trying to use Cybersettle to make Personal Injury claims easier to process and resolve, especially if they are smaller claims.

Over at My Shingle , I've posted on this article from Crains that reports on New York City's proposed two year pilot program of a computerized, on-line settlement system for litigants who have suits against New York City. The system will use Cybersettle which according to the article has processed roughly 75,000 settlements in its six years in business. NYC expects to refer less serious personal injury cases - roughly 1/3 of the 24,000 suits filed annually against the City - to the on-line settlement system. Though I do not have personal experience with Cyber-settle, this proposal sounds like a great idea. It will expedite settlements against New York City and facilitate the time involved in negotiating claims, which hopefully will bring savings to litigants (I say hopefully because I fear that attorneys working on contingency will not take the expedited system into account when taking a percentage cut - which in my view, is unethical). Moreover, perhaps with an on-line settlement system, more litigants will be able to settle smaller claims without attorney intervention. This is one initiative that I'll be watching closely.