Personal injury fraud ring is hitting the news.

Those of us who practice in New Orleans have known about this for a while. But Travers Mackel of WDSU has picked up on the story. Basically a bunch of plaintiff lawyers and corrupt doctors in cahoots with each other, and a bunch of staged accidents coming out of the same location in NO East.

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They defend truck drivers and their insurance companies, and say this case isn't isolated. The two claim as many as nine lawsuits -- all filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court -- are "nearly identical" and "plaintiffs reported no injuries to the police officer at the scene of the accident and none went to the emergency room on the night of the accident despite now all claiming significant injuries from relatively minor damages to the plaintiff's vehicles." In their motion, they call the wrecks suspicious, and allege some of the people making the claims may know each other and may be related to each other. The court documents also claim that "in every case, the truck driver had no idea there was a collision and was approached in the parking lot by someone claiming to have been involved in the accident."

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And of course, the plaintiff lawyers are in a panic. They have lawyered up and are trying to spin this all as being about greedy insurance companies:

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These accusations and allegations of "suspicious activity" are nothing more than a tactic used over and over by billion-dollar insurance companies to intimidate injured victims and delay their search for justice in court.

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shite is about to get real down here, brah. Way past due.

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