Most likely there is legal advice available for you for very little money. Ok, I am not in the US, but in Switserland you can have an 30 minutes of lawyer time

Most likely there is legal advice available for you for very little money. Ok, I am not in the US, but in Switserland you can have an 30 minutes of lawyer time for 50/100chf via local services. Similar things exist in the Netherlands. In the US, talk to one of the "ambulance" chasers, that is unlikely to cost you. Legal options can cost a lot, but not for the first conversation. That first conversation is 90% of the value of a layer.