A couple from St. Louis, USA, are suing their personal injury lawyer after he failed to file their case for compensation in time, allowing the statue for limitations to expire meaning they could no longer claim for their car accident.

The couple, Kenneth Funk and his wife Laurine, were injured in a car accident in 2005. The accident was not their fault, as another man, Todd Kessler, crashed into the side of their car.

However, their personal injury lawyer, Jeffrey S. Hamel, didn’t gather the necessary documents in time to file the claim against Mr Kessler, and didn’t even tell the couple that he had failed to do so.

The law suit, brought by the couple against the personal injury lawyer, states:

But for Defendant Attorney’s negligence, as pleaded above, Plaintiff would have been successful and recovered monies in his personal injury claims against Kessler arising out of the September 19, 2005 crash.

The couple are looking for $100,000 in compensation from their former personal injury lawyer, a similar figure to that which they would have claimed had their case been filed in time.