The following may delay and/or reduce a refund: A tax return that has errors A taxpayer and/or spouse, if filing a joint return, who has any outstanding unpaid assessments,
Pre-trial Settlement Percentage: Statistics on Personal Injury Settlements. Four percent to five percent of the personal injury cases in the United States go to trial. 95 percent to 96 percent of personal injury cases are settled pretrial. Several researchers and experts quote these numbers like gospel. The source of these statistics is the US Government, so gospel it is.
Most courts set trial dates many months ahead of time. Thus, a case which is set to go to trial in seven to eight months may get continued for an additional seven to eight months if the courtâs docket has more than one case ready to be tried on that date.Second, the discovery phase of litigation is time consuming.ury cases cannot be tried during weeks designated as judge trial weeks and vice versa. Courts also set aside at least one day a week for the hearing of motions. Trials cannot be scheduled on days during which the court hears motions. Often, courts will break during the trial for a day to hear motions.