Bike crashes, litigation and attorneys

Posted on November 18, 2010 by .
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If you’ve ever been hit and injured while bicycling and attempted litigation to recover your medical costs, you already know that finding an attorney who will take your case can be very difficult.

I’ve heard before that attorneys are reluctant to take on bike cases because of dismal success rates and low payouts. When I ran into San Francisco cyclist and attorney Shaana Rahman a couple of weekends ago, she told me she takes bicycle personal injury cases because she’s a a true believer cycling advocate, but confirmed that most attorneys won’t take personal injury bicycle crash cases on contingency because they don’t expect to win.

Biking In LA covers this topic in more detail, outlining jury trial success rate and average and median awards when a cyclist tries to recover damages in a bike injury case.



See also:

  1. Attorneys and driving records
  2. UK Study: Risky cycling rarely to blame for bike crashes
  3. Study claims cyclists at fault in only 10 percent of crashes
  4. Crash, burn and sue


  • http://blacknell.net/dynamic/ MB

    Yep. I found this out a while back when, at the request of a local cyclist that had been hit, I tried to get a good referral for an injury attorney. Being a lawyer in a city full of lawyers, it usually takes me a handful of calls before I get a handful of good referrals. But a personal injury attorney who understands and is willing to take on a cyclist’s case? That was tough.

    (It’s particularly tough in my area (DC), which sits in the few remaining “contributory negligence” jurisdictions. This creates an incredibly high bar for recovery, and I can’t imagine that a practice of just cycling cases could even put food on the table.)

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