Arithmetic, not an estimate
Where a settlement dollar actually goes
The number in a settlement is a gross number. Several parties have a claim on it before the injured person sees any of it. This page does the subtraction — with figures you supply, not figures it guesses.
This does not tell you what a case is worth, and nothing on this site does.That depends on injuries, coverage, fault, venue, and facts a web page cannot know. What this page does is take a number you already have — an offer on the table, or a figure you are simply curious about — and show what happens to it.
Three things come out of a gross recovery, and the order they come out in is not the same in every agreement. The attorney's fee is one. Case costs are a second and separate question from the fee. And the repayment rights of health plans, hospitals and other payers are a third — each created by a different statute, each with its own rule about whether it is reduced to share in the cost of the recovery.
The subtraction
Every figure here is yours to enter. Nothing is pre-filled, because a pre-filled fee percentage would be a fee quote and this page is not one.
Read it off the written agreement you signed. This site publishes no percentage — see why below.
The amount claimed. Whether the full amount is actually owed is a separate question, and a real one.
Nothing you type here is sent anywhere. There is no server behind this page — the arithmetic runs in your browser and the numbers never leave it.
Why the order matters, and where the answer lives
Minn. R. Prof. Conduct 1.5(c) requires that a contingent-fee agreement be in writing, signed by the client, and that it statewhether such expenses are to be deducted before or after the contingent fee is calculated
. So the answer is not a matter of custom or of what sounds fair — it is a term of the agreement, and it is in writing because the rule requires it to be. If you are not sure which applies to you, that is a question with a definite answer and you are entitled to it.
Any contingent fee arrangement will be set out in a written agreement signed by you that states the percentage the firm receives on settlement, trial, or appeal; which expenses come out of the recovery; whether those expenses are deducted before or after the fee is calculated; and any expenses you will owe whether or not you win.
Why this page publishes no percentage
Madgett Law, LLC handles most Minnesota personal injury matters on a contingent fee: the firm's fee is a percentage of what it recovers for you, and if there is no recovery, there is no attorney's fee.
Case costs are separate from the attorney’s fee. Filing fees, medical records, police reports, expert witnesses, and deposition transcripts are case costs. Madgett Law, LLC advances case costs, and repayment of those costs is contingent on a recovery. If there is no recovery, you owe nothing.
Nothing on this page is a fee quote, a fee agreement, or an offer of representation. Fees are set case by case.
Nothing on this page is advice about your situation, and no article can be. If you want your own facts looked at, a Minnesota personal injury attorney can do that.