Because most Georgia personal injury lawyers and insurance adjusters attempt to reach a negotiated settlement before filing suit or going to trial, settlement negotiations sometimes take comparative negligence into account.
An insurance adjuster may offer less than full value on a case, arguing that there should be some reduction based on the victim’s comparative negligence. However, the job of a car accident attorney is to determine whether such a reduction is justified or to push back and demand that the insurance adjuster offer more settlement money.