Well, you know, it took her a bit of time to find the right lawyer.
Everyone is so cynical. Did it ever occur to any of you that maybe the lady was injured and thought the pain would go away but then it didn’t and she later realized she had a serious problem. In fact, that she waited showed that she probably is sincere. A person who was planning on this would have had the lawyer all lined up and run screaming out that she’d be suing and making a scene so she’d have lots of witnesses.
I guess I’m sympathetic because something similar happened to me - not in the event itself but in the way my injury developed. I sustained a repetitive motion injury and I thought rest and so on would make it heal. It never healed. This was from three years ago. It’s complicated.
Bodies don’t always immediately reflect the true level of damage.