Vocational Experts in Massachusetts Personal Injury Trials

If your Massachusetts personal injury lawyer is unable to settle your personal injury claim, he/she will have to file suit against the party that caused your injuries. That means that your personal injury claim will be litigated.  Litigation costs are very expensive for many different reasons. One of those reasons is that your lawyer will have to hire experts to provide expert testimony at the trial.

One kind of expert that is commonly used in Massachusetts personal injury trials is a vocational expert. A vocational expert is one who testifies about your injuries and disability and how they affect your ability to work. The attorney who represents the insurance company will cross-examine this witness in order to discredit his/her testimony.

Vocational experts are very expensive – they charge a few thousand dollars for their testimony – and they represent only one type of expert witness you will need to present at your Massachusetts personal injury trial.

Nearly twenty years ago when I opened my practice I decided to dedicate my career to advancing the rights of injury victims against powerful insurance companies. Personally, I find great satisfaction in helping good and honest people who have been wronged due to no fault of their own. I am really proud to have earned our clients’ hard-earned trust by running a law firm our clients can always count on to do the right thing.