Personal Injury Attorneys - Lynnwood

Personal Injury Legal Claims:

We handle all types of personal injury claims, including auto accidents, auto-bicycle accidents, auto-pedestrian accidents, and motorcycle accidents. We also handle claims against care providers, including claims against, adult family homes, foster homes, and DSHS. We handle claims involving all types of personal injuries, from whiplash and fractures up to severe burns, crippling injuries, and wrongful death.

Personal Injury Case Work:

We investigate and resolve your personal injury claim as quickly as possible. After you sign an agreement with us, we get photographs and witness statements right away. Then we assemble your medical records, and put together a thorough demand letter package. The package includes the police report, photos, medical records, and bills. It usually fills a 3-ring binder, and often includes hundreds of pages of evidence. The demand letter package includes everything the insurer needs to make a fair settlement offer.

Personal Injury Focus:

I limit my Lynnwood, WA legal practice to personal injury cases.  I have been practicing as an attorney since 1994, and have been operating my own law firm since 2005.  I take all personal injury cases on a contingent fee basis - I get no fees unless I get a recovery for you.   You will be kept fully informed and I will do everything legally possible to make the wrongdoers pay reasonable compensation for your damages.  Many personal injury attorneys settle for whatever they can get without filing suit.  With my legal firm, I will file suit if necessary, with your permission, and will vigorously pursue the Defendants.  You won’t be sent away with a lowball settlement if litigation could get you a better result.  Unlike the high-volume attorneys, which are called “personal injury mills,” I handle your case myself.  I don’t have paralegals or “case managers” doing tasks or making decisions that should be handled by an attorney.  You will experience the difference if you hire Herman Law Firm PLLC.

Lynnwood, WA Personal Injury Attorney

Jeffrey L. Herman - Lynnwood, WA Personal Injury Attorney
BA, MSW, and JD degrees • Instructor, Wrongful Death Claims in Washington (Lorman Seminars) • Instructor, Shoreline Community College (Peoples' Law School) • Current Eagle Member, Washington State Association for Justice

Personal Injury Attorney FAQs Answered

We will sign a written fee agreement with you. We work on a “contingent fee” basis - we get a fee only if we get a recovery for you. Unlike “hourly fee” attorneys, we have an incentive to move the personal injury case forward.

We will thoroughly investigate the facts showing that the other party is at fault for your injuries, and get witness statements and photos if possible.

We will monitor your medical treatment, and will gather your accident-related medical records and bills. 

While you are getting medical treatment, if any of your bills are going into collection, we will send the medical providers a special “no collection” letter asking the providers to hold off on collection until after the claim is resolved. This unique step helps preserve your credit rating and prevents bill collectors from harassing you.

After you are done with your injury treatment, we will review all of the evidence, and draft a “demand letter” setting forth the facts and summarizing the evidence. After you approve it, he will send it to the at-fault party’s insurer with a deadline for the insurer to respond.

We will negotiate with the at-fault party’s insurer and settle the personal injury claim if possible.

If we are unable to resolve the claim to your satisfaction, we will file a lawsuit against all at-fault parties, and will vigorously pursue the personal injury suit until it is resolved through settlement, arbitration, or trial.

After the personal injury suit is resolved, we will resolve your outstanding medical bills, and will negotiate to have interest charges or late fees reduced or eliminated. This increases the amount of your check.

If your medical bills were paid for by insurance, Jeff Herman will attempt to have these insurers reduce their bills to pay for a portion of his fees. If he can collect a portion of fees from the insurers, your settlement check will be increased by that amount. This way, the insurance companies pay part of the fees. This can wind up putting much more money in your pocket.

Before any money from your personal injury case is paid out, we will get your approval on the breakdown of payments to treatment providers, insurers, our fees, and other amounts to be deducted. Then we will pay the treatment providers, subtract our fees and costs, and disburse the remainder to you. Your recovery will typically be free of any claims on it (except for any treatment or charges that you didn’t tell us about). That way you receive the money with no strings attached.