Fact Pattern 10-5 Brick and Carmen Are in an Auto

question 70

Multiple Choice

Fact Pattern 10-5 Brick and Carmen are in an auto accident. Brick offers Carmen $2,000 if she promises not to pursue her potential legal claim against Brick. Carmen agrees. Later, Carmen discovers that it will cost $1,500 to repair her car and $4,000 to cover the medical expenses for a latent injury.
Refer to Fact Pattern 10-5. In Carmen's suit against Brick to recover her repair and medical expenses, Carmen will most likely recover

• A) half the amount to pay the costs over what Brick already paid Carmen.
• B) nothing.
• C) the estimated amount to pay those costs and any other liability.
• D) the exact amount to pay those costs and no more.

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