LAWSUIT DEPOSITION

For most people, they tend to be totally
unfamiliar with the legal world, myself included.  Oh we know the common
laws, but when it comes to lawsuits and courtrooms, we know very little. 
After being hit by an inattentive driver, while I was stopped to make a turn,
the battle began.  I don’t think we, as law abiding citizens trying to do
the right thing, have any idea how many other people refuse to obey the
rules.  Probably we think this because we assume the best about
everyone.  Unfortunately when people don’t have insurance or a driver’s
license, it makes the whole accident process much more involved.  If you
have ever been in an accident, you know that the day after the accident, you
feel like you were literally run over by a truck.  Every muscle in your
body aches.  Relief is hard to come by, even with all the wonderful
medical discoveries of today.  There are always the usual pain medications
to ease the pain, chiropractors to put everything back in place, massage
therapists to loosen the tight and sore muscles, and physical therapists to get
us to use those sore and aching body parts.    These things all
help to some extent, but they never manage to take it all away or bring your
body back to where it was before the accident.   So the only
alternative is a lawsuit to hopefully provide money to buy some extent of pain
relief.   It seems everything the courts and lawyers do take
forever—months and years to be more specific.  Basically courts seem
rather scary to most people in the general public, probably because we don’t
have much experience interacting with them.   We are afraid we will
say the wrong thing from sheer lack of experience in knowing what not to say
and what to say.  This results in a deposition being a stressful
situation.  Finally, almost two years later, I sat at a deposition with
two lawyers, a court reporter and the insurance company’s representative to answer
questions about the last two years along with prior incidences they deemed
important.  These days it can be difficult to remember what we did just
last week, much less two or more years ago, but I did my best and answered to
the best of my knowledge.  Now the lawyers will dissect the answers to
prepare their cases, each trying to win the lawsuit for their clients. 

 And so
the waiting begins, again.