Barquinero v. GEICO –– May 2018
Last Pre-Trial Offer: $125,000
Albert Lechner represented a 50 year old lawyer initially from Peru and with an accent that was involved in a rear-end collision as a passenger as a 43 year old. The referring lawyer settled the case against the at fault driver for $40,000 of the available $50,000 in BI, so the case was brought against Geico, the driver of our vehicle’s UM carrier. Geico had a $500,000 policy and was entitled to a $50,000 set off for the available BI.
Geico’s last offer was $125,000.
While the jury was deliberating the defense lawyer told Al she felt every time he sat down and she got up to address the jury she had nothing left to say because Al had said it all. “I heard through the grapevine the next day that the lawyers in her office were discussing that it was uncanny how I knew exactly what to say almost as if I had their script in advance. To me that speaks directly to the power of the Trial Structure.”