Who pays the case costs?
Case costs are things like a Court filing fee, a fee for getting copies of medical records, address verification of the person who hurt you, ordering a copy of the police report, etc. I typically advance case costs. If we lose, I typically eat the costs I have advanced on your case–you do not pay me back. If we win, the case costs come out of your end after I take my fee. This is standard practice in the injury business. I am very careful not to waste money on Court costs. There are some occasional cases that I ask for a retainer or costs-only retainer, but that is in less than 1% of my cases, and it is a rare and special situation.
