From: Greg Pavlov

(George Adams)
wrote:

Basically because the mechanic usually does'nt know the extent of the
problem
when you first bring the car in. ...

Compared to the uncertainty of what a defendant, a jury,
a judge, or even the plaintiff may do, and the uncertainty
of what the evidence may show once every one has dug into
it...

Exactly. And that is precisely why legal fees can escalate very quickly, and it
is very difficult to estimate them at the start.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller