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.
In the period from 2001 through 2008, the number of civil cases tried, whether to a jury or to the court, declined from 272 in 2001 to 190 in 2008, a 30% decline. Although not a straight line, the general downward trend in unmistakable.