The insurance industry calls this a MIST case, which means Minor Injury Soft Tissue. This was a side swipe auto collision with minimal property damage to both vehicles. Defendant denied full responsibility and blamed Plaintiff for not paying attention. Our client was treated through her health insurance and received extensive physical therapy and some in-office muscle relaxer injections. She was then discharged. Two years later, she went back to treatment for a single epidural injection. This was one year prior to trial. The best offer received from the at-fault insurance company was $11,656.40. Our trial team decided to try to beat that at trial, and achieved a jury verdict of $613,300 – which ended up amounting to just under $800,000 after adding statutory interest and costs.
