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.
The number of cases that go to trial has declined at an alarming rate over the last couple of decades, according to the book. Overall, for all areas of the law, federal civil trials have declined 60 percent since the mid-1980s.In 2002, less than 2 percent of those cases ended in a trial â down from 12 percent in 1962 and 20 percent in the 1920s. Less than 5 percent of criminal cases go to trial; most result in plea bargains.e argues that many more cases could go to court and be tried in a reasonable amount of time if judges and lawyers worked to change the culture to favor the trial. Judges, for example, could limit discovery so that cases don't go on forever at the pre-trial process, he says.