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I'm still learning about this process. I thought a personal injury lawyer only dealt with the insurance company and a civil litigation lawyer went after the driver.
A personal injury lawyer is simply a civil litigation lawyer who concentrates his/her practice in handling personal injury lawsuits. It may help to understand that it is the driver who is liable to you because he is the one who injured you as a result of his negligence. His insurance company, on the other hand, has no direct obligation to you. Rather, the insurance company's obligations are to its insured (the other driver) because that is who they contracted to insure. When you make a claim against the driver, the insurance company steps in to represent the driver as part of its obligation to the driver, and the insurance company is obligated to pay not because it owes you anything but because it owes its insured to prevent the insured from having to pay. In the end it still works out that the insurance company issues you a check for it, but it's because of your claim against the driver, not because of any claim you have against the insurance company. So if you need to sue, your lawyer will sue the other driver. It'll still be the insurance company lawyer that you lawyer will deal with however, and it will be the insurance company that pays (up to the policy limits).

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Either way my lawyer isn't afraid to sue and has been doing this since the 90s so I know he'll do everything he can to get his money.
That's what most personal injury lawyers will do for you.