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re: Private personal injury attorney vs. large firm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 4:39 pm to MoonrakerElite
Posted on 4/6/16 at 4:39 pm to MoonrakerElite
quote:Not at all.
This is why it's impossible to have a legit discussion in here. Your view is that all lawyers are sheisters that run up medicals.
quote:Mitigated? Why should they disclose the limits?
Also, the occurrence of jacking up medicals is mitigated by the fact that the insurance companies don't disclose policy limits, which incurs risk for the attorneys if they're paying for the medicals, which was the point of my reply.
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Posted on 4/6/16 at 4:40 pm to DaTroof
I am very blessed to have met a great guy a few years ago.
(My wife was a legal secretary before we were married)
He has helped me numerous times and I very much value his counsel.
You guys go to school for a long time and evidently, some of it sticks.
(My wife was a legal secretary before we were married)
He has helped me numerous times and I very much value his counsel.
You guys go to school for a long time and evidently, some of it sticks.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 4:50 pm to DaTroof
quote:
Lawyers know full well that, generally speaking, you're going to get low balled to hell by the insurance company if you're not represented. They know this. The key is to find an attorney that's not going to take 30-40% of the total settlement including medical expenses. Call around until you find an attorney willing to take your case based on his/her fee being 30-40% of the amount of the settlement AFTER medical expenses are paid. This assures that he/she will work their hardest to settle the case for as much as possible without frivolously running up medical expenses and sending you to every one of their doctor friends in town that are all going to suggest bullshite unnecessary treatment.
This is about the third or fourth time I've seen you post this. You want to tell us your story that left such a bad taste in your mouth?
Posted on 4/6/16 at 4:55 pm to VetteGuy
He's a chiseling shirker, routinely denying just compensation to widows and orphans.
OP sounds like a classic plaintiff, checking with his lawyer to see whether or not he was hurt.
OP sounds like a classic plaintiff, checking with his lawyer to see whether or not he was hurt.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:00 pm to Mung
quote:
checking with his lawyer to see whether or not he was hurt.
This is the whole issue. If injuries were assessed after medical treatment is done, with the 'done' being determined medically and not legally, maybe I would buy some of these claims. But it is entirely too common to see patients who are pissed when you tell them they are fine or that they have a problem but that it is easily fixable. They don't like that, and that tells me a lot about the flaws in the system.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:01 pm to Mung
quote:That was contracts brah.
He's a chiseling shirker,
quote:At every opportunity!
routinely denying just compensation to widows and orphans.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:02 pm to MoonrakerElite
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Plf Attys Dk what policy limits are 99% of time
Why do policy limits matter? Just treat until You get better. With Obamacare errybody has health insurance, so their care should be covered, right? Collateral source rules prevent liability insuror from taking credit for that.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:02 pm to MoonrakerElite
oops, DP
Alx, sometimes I mixes my metaphors.
Alx, sometimes I mixes my metaphors.
This post was edited on 4/6/16 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:03 pm to Mung
It really did bear repeating 
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:11 pm to Mung
quote:
routinely denying just compensation to widows and orphans.
I did hear tell he was gonna buy the old ladies' home and kick the old ladies out.
So he's got that going for him.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:18 pm to MoonrakerElite
quote:
Also, the occurrence of jacking up medicals is mitigated by the fact that the insurance companies don't disclose policy limits, which incurs risk for the attorneys if they're paying for the medicals.
They will get this information if they want it after the suit's filed, through discovery.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:19 pm to Bill Dauterive
Don't think it matters much if you choose a solo practice, small firm or large firm. Choose someone ethical that knows the law.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:27 pm to Motorboat
quote:
Managing risk
Nothing worse than a defense lawyer with a PI case. I know of 2 jury trial zeros in the past year where the ID Atty turned plf Atty failed to properly evaluate his position, and got hosed at trial.
I send all mine to a classmate bc I know I'm too stupid to properly evaluate them.
Posted on 4/6/16 at 5:30 pm to Rockbrc
quote:
Don't think it matters much if you choose a solo practice, small firm or large firm. Choose someone ethical that knows the law.
finally someone that answered the OP correctly.
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