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An automated assistant that explains how injury claims work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is not a lawyer and it will not pretend to be one.
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Information assistant · automated
Hello. I can explain how injury claims generally work in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. I am not a lawyer, so I cannot tell you whether you have a claim or what
your deadline is. What would you like to understand?
I was rear-ended in Philadelphia last month. Do I have a case?
I am not able to answer that one. Whether you have a claim depends
on the specific facts, and working that out is practising law, which I cannot do.
What I can do is tell you what is likely to matter. In Pennsylvania the big one is whether your auto policy elected limited tort or full tort, because limited tort waives compensation for pain and suffering unless the injury is serious as your policy defines it, or one of six statutory exceptions applies. Your declarations page states which you have.
The filing deadline for an injury lawsuit in Pennsylvania is two years from the date of injury. That is general, not a deadline for your matter, since several things can shorten it. Would you like me to explain limited tort, or take down what happened so you have it written up?
What I can do is tell you what is likely to matter. In Pennsylvania the big one is whether your auto policy elected limited tort or full tort, because limited tort waives compensation for pain and suffering unless the injury is serious as your policy defines it, or one of six statutory exceptions applies. Your declarations page states which you have.
The filing deadline for an injury lawsuit in Pennsylvania is two years from the date of injury. That is general, not a deadline for your matter, since several things can shorten it. Would you like me to explain limited tort, or take down what happened so you have it written up?
Illustration of how the assistant answers. The live assistant appears in the corner of every page.
Things it answers well
- What the verbal threshold is and which six categories satisfy it
- What limited tort gives up, and the exceptions
- When the 21, 90, 120-day and six-month clocks start
- What workers' compensation pays and what it does not
- What comparative fault does to a recovery
- Which agency handles what, and what is free
Things it will refuse
- Whether you have a claim
- What your claim is worth
- What your personal deadline is
- Whether to accept a settlement offer
- Which lawyer or firm to use
- Anything that requires applying law to your facts