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Data from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) indicates that roughly 4% of personal injury cases go to trial. 1 The odds of a case proceeding to trial are slim, but those odds shouldn’t be confused with the actual number of tort claims that are initiated or filed in court. Prevalence of …