The first question I ask potential car accident clients is how much damage was done to the cars in an auto accident. Low property damage kills a personal injury case. Often times, we will get a letter from an insurance company with a ridiculously low offer in a case and attached is a glossy, color photograph of our client’s car showing little or n property damage. Clients will often ask, “why does property damage matter when I was hurt in the accident?” The answer is simple. Once an insurance company makes a low offer in a low property damage accident, the choice is to accept the offer or file a lawsuit. Car accident cases with little or no property damage are nearly impossible to win at trial. The insurance company’s lawyer makes the case about the damage to the car and not the damage to my client. A good insurance company lawyer will almost disregard the other facts of the case and simply parade photographs of the car in front of the jury time and time again. The chances are about 99.9% that each of the jury members have been involved in a minor “fender bender.” However, any possible jury member that has been hurt in a minor accident will have been knocked off the jury by the insurance company’s lawyer. Jury members bring their individual experiences with them into the jury room. Because none of them were injured in their minor accidents, they just can’t see how you were injured in your minor accident.