Burney, CA Personal Injury Law Firms & Lawyers

1. This does not sound like a personal injury case. It sounds like breach of either a written or oral contract (such as a retail purchase of some type). 2. It is very common for merchant who believes they are owed money, to assign the debt to the debt collector, who then steps into the shoes of the merchant and has standing to sue you. 3. If it's an oral contract, then you can be sued up to 2 years after the breach. If it was a debt based upon a written document, such as a sales receipt, then the merchant has 4 years from the breach of that contract to sue you. 4. There are many defenses to a lawsuit for breach of contract, such as the product was defective.

At any point during representation you can drop your lawyer if you are unhappy with them. Just be aware that the lawyer will then likely have a lien against your case for the hours that they put in to it. However, if your attorney "drops" your case, then you no longer have to pay him anything if you end up hiring other counsel.

You don't get paid in a claim for what might have been. You get paid, if you have a claim ,for what did happen. I assume since you did not say, that you are OK. You had a difficult spell because off what you say is "their error" do you have some significant damage as a result, do you have a doctor to testify for you that what you say is an error is in fact an error? That is where you have to start.