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.
This means that it costs an average of $143,493 per person who takes a plea bargain, and an average of $423,646 per person whose case went to trial. From the chart on page 15, the data shows there was an average of roughly 750 white collar crime convictions per month, equaling about 9,000 for the year 2011.