I apologize for the word salad, I just got home from work and it is passed midnight. I was in a pedestrian accident with a semi-truck last year. I am in the process of suing the company whom the semi-truck belonged to. Through the MACP I was assigned auto-insurance at no cost to cover my medical expenses. For the most part the assigned insurance has paid everything required, the only things they still have been causing a fuss about has been the bills for Case management. My lawyers advised me to file suit against the insurance company for what they haven't paid, but I have declined doing so because they usually pay once I press the issue. Even so they keep pestering me to sign a document to retain them for a lawsuit, which I have not signed for the aforementioned reasoning. Just now I come home to a letter from my lawyers informing me that the insurance company has scheduled a deposition, meaning (obviously) that there is a lawsuit filed against the insurance company for PIP benefits. I never authorized this. So I have two questions, 1) has my lawyer acted outside the law by filing suit without my consent, and 2) is there any way I can get stuck paying more lawyers' fees for this additional suit when I never signed the document agreeing to retain and pay them for said suit? Additional information that's probably important; I also never signed any POA giving them permission to make decisions and sign things on my behalf.