You may often hear the term, we’re gonna file a lawsuit. Well, what does that even mean? What does that look like when you say we’re gonna file a lawsuit? Well, what that means is the lawyer that’s representing you is going to draft what’s called a complaint. And all a complaint is is what the person you think hurt you did wrong lays out: what they did and how it hurt you. And then you take that document Nowadays, it’s e-file, but you actually file it with the court in the county where the defendant lives, and then once you do that, it is actually filed. Well, now that it’s filed, there’s another step to actually make it so it’s actually complete, and that is getting the defendant served with this lawsuit. That’s actually a formal process where either a sheriff or somebody called a process server will hand-deliver that document to the at-fault driver, the defendant in the case. Once the complaint has been filed with the courthouse and the defendant has been served with that complaint, you, at that point, have a lawsuit.
