What happens when two drivers are in an accident, and both call on the same insurance/lawyers?
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It’s quite common for both drivers to have the same insurance company. It doesn’t really matter, and in fact it usually speeds up the claims process. The insurance company determines who it believes to be at fault and pays out according to the respective parties’ insurance policies.
Normally in a case like that you wouldn’t need lawyers to be involved. Normally you’d hire a lawyer if you were uninsured – for example let’s say you only carry the basic liability policy on your insurance, but an uninsured driver crashes into you and refuses to pay. You could then hire a lawyer to try to sue them. There’s rarely a need if you had your own collision insurance, because then your insurance company would pay you and use their own lawyers to try to collect from the at-fault party.
But let’s say neither party was insured and you both called the same law firm. In that case, the law firm would refuse to do business with both of you. It’s not legal for them to represent both sides in the same lawsuit. They could either go with whoever contacted them first, whoever they had a prior relationship with, or they could just drop both of you so it didn’t look like they were playing favorites.
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