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Continuing from my last post, on the last day of settlement negation, the insurance company (ICBC）’s lawyer said: “I’ve reviewed all the reports from all these years, and time has proven that your injury isn’t as severe as you believe. There’s no nerve damage. It’s not the big case you thought, with a settlement amount of xxx dollars. It’s just a typical case in the range of xxx-xxx. We cannot agree to your settlement range. We will go back and regroup, then communicate with your lawyer about the next steps.”I looked at my lawyer, who remained calm, and he said,... Continue reading

Continuing from last post, my case was finally settled! During those years, I’ve also somewhat realized my entrepreneurial dream, going solo in my career. My main niche was helping people achieve 8-12% (annually) passive income primarily through two products. One involves lending, with an annual return typically ranging from 8-12%, and it provides a steady cash flow. The other is real estate private equity, where I usually convert single-family homes into duplexes or triplexes and eventually manage multifamily properties, ranging from 6-20 units. As I developed my business, my lawyer, of course, knew about it. After quite a while post... Continue reading

Continuing from last post, my lawyer and I are both straight shooter. After all, we’ve known each other for quite a few years, and I’ve been lending money on my own for a number of years while helping others do the same; meanwhile, he has become a leading personal injury lawyer in BC with frequent media appearances and commentaries, while even writing curriculum for law school textbooks. So we went straight to the point.  He mentioned his current pain point was that the number of cases came to his way has been increasing significantly, reaching several hundreds. Each case requires... Continue reading

Continuing from last post, the lawyer explained to me that typically, case funding came from the law firm itself. Law firms provided financial support to their lawyers in exchange for profit cut from each claim when the case concluded, and law firms’ funding itself was typically from wealthy partners and banks. The larger the law firm, the more funding it could provide to its lawyers, enabling them to take on more cases. This created a positive cycle where more cases led to more funding, and more funding led to more cases. Therefore, there has never been a shortage of disbursement... Continue reading