For auto crash cases, here's help.

Plaintiff attorneys handling motor vehicle collision cases tackle complex legal issues involving insurance, government regulations, crash dynamics, and damages, among other matters. The Exchange offers several litigation packets to help AAJ members represent injured clients.

Litigating the First-Party Bad-Faith Claim. Bad-faith insurance practices are common in collision cases. In representing policyholders whom insurers have treated unfairly, plaintiff attorneys must show what should have happened during the claims-handling process--and what actually did happen--to establish that the in surer breached its duty of good faith.

"Litigating the First-Party Bad-Faith Claim" provides tools for litigating these claims, starting with initial case evaluation and concluding with advice from experienced plaintiff attorneys on conducting a bad-faith trial.

Interstate Trucking Regulations, Discovery, and Damages. This packet includes sample complaints and discovery requests, depositions of a collision-warning-system expert and information-management-system personnel, and deposition outlines for defense trucking and accident reconstruction experts. It discusses federal regulations, discovery issues, and damages specific to these cases.

Low-Speed Impact. This packet addresses key issues that arise in assessing and trying low-impact, connective-tissue cases. Relying on "experts," the insurance industry claims that bodily injuries cannot occur in a low-impact crash. AAJ attorneys experienced in winning full compensation for clients offer strategies for proving that serious injury and even death can occur.

For more information on Exchange litigation packets, visit www.justice.org/exchange and click on "Litigation Packets," or call the Exchange at [phone].