Cases involving large numbers of potential victims, potentially huge losses for a major company, and the general bad publicity that these cases generate will guarantee that top defense attorneys will be helping Pfizer, Inc., and any other organizations or people who are sued as a result of injuries caused by Bextra. If you handle your Bextra lawsuit yourself, the court will hold you to the same standards as any attorney. You can be sure that these defense attorneys are not going to overlook anything that you fail to do. For example, if you miss a filing deadline, do not follow the procedural rules correctly, or miss bringing a defendant into the case by misspelling a name, your case may end almost as soon as you try to begin it. And while everyone has heard that Bextra can cause a stroke, you still need to prove that in your case, Bextra WAS the cause of the stroke – proof that will probably require considerable expert testimony.

Negotiating with a giant drug company such as Pfizer without having an experienced Bextra lawyer on your side will likely end badly. The Pfizer attorneys and adjusters will have no particular reason to take your case, or you, as a serious threat to the company and you will probably not get the highest possible settlement in your case. In fact, you are putting yourself at an extreme disadvantage in terms of experience and knowledge regarding your situation. If you do not hire an attorney who is experienced in the field, you’re exposing yourself to people who are friendly, sweet and nice, but they will get you to talk about things you should not and to admit things that you think have no meaning and couldn’t possibly hurt you. Then, all of a sudden, you realize they were the experts, and you weren’t. The drug company lawyers really like settling with people who are ignorant of their rights and clueless as to the value of the case.

When you hire an attorney to handle a personal injury case, you generally do not have to put any money down up front. Personal injury attorneys usually work on a “contingency fee”, where the attorney takes a percentage of the final damages that you receive – and if you receive nothing, the attorney doesn’t get paid. Most contingency fees take about 1/3 of the final award and cover the attorney and his or her staff’s time and work, expert witness fees, and other fees associated with bringing a lawsuit. Especially since you don’t need to come up with this money up front, you can consider this money well spent to get the damages you deserve.

In many cases, joining a class action suit is the best way to proceed with your case. While your damage award may be somewhat lower than if you proceed individually, you may also receive damages that individual suits never see if the company decides to declare bankruptcy. Furthermore, if your case is similar to many other cases, you may not be at any disadvantage by joining a class action. You can discuss your case and whether it would be to your advantage to join a class action with an experienced personal injury attorney.

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