Another good question. What happens when you have a family who’s involved in a car crash and you have a dad, mom and a son and daughter. Are they all one case? Are they separate cases? Every person has their independent claim against the at fault party. The daughter, for example, is if she only goes to the doctor once, has an ER checkup, you can submit that case with a brother, for example, maybe has a broken leg, and is still treating for a year, you can settle the daughter’s claim, and then settle the son’s claim later on.
That’s pretty standard. It happens pretty frequently that some people are more injured than others and you can settle their claims independent of each other are the independent claims. Yes you can have different attorneys for each person. You could have one attorney depending on how the accident happened. You could have one attorney for the entire family, but they are all independent claims.