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The injury lawyer commercials that specify high dollar settlements...
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:01 pm
Does anybody here think that the commercials that constantly throw out high six figure dollar amounts for accident settlements... create MORE of a likelihood that people will try to commit insurance fraud? That unscrupulous people will try to create or purposefully put themselves in a dangerous situation so they can possibly hit a damages jackpot?
I know this has always been a scam angle and I'm not suggesting that it's a new thing. It just seems that playing up the big money on the ads might send more motivation to those people who want to do that. Or make people want to do it who never even considered it before?
I know this has always been a scam angle and I'm not suggesting that it's a new thing. It just seems that playing up the big money on the ads might send more motivation to those people who want to do that. Or make people want to do it who never even considered it before?
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Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:02 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Lawyers still get a percentage
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:03 pm to RockAndRollDetective
PI attorneys would never try to solicit dumb people looking for a payout.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:06 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Part of the problem is you have good people who have their medical bills denied after an accident and they have no choice other than to get an attorney involved. These people wouldn’t have “sued” otherwise but just wanted their medical bills paid for. Once they lawyer up, the lawyer isn’t going to stop at simple reimbursement since it’s his/her job to make as much money as possible. Thus a much higher payout results in the end.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:10 pm to HempHead
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PI attorneys would never try to solicit dumb people looking for a payout.
They are men of God and just doing the Lord's work. They are essentially modern day saints.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:10 pm to TDsngumbo
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Part of the problem is you have good people who have their medical bills denied after an accident and they have no choice other than to get an attorney involved. These people wouldn’t have “sued” otherwise but just wanted their medical bills paid for. Once they lawyer up, the lawyer isn’t going to stop at simple reimbursement since it’s his/her job to make as much money as possible. Thus a much higher payout results in the end.
This is rarely, if ever, the case.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:10 pm to RockAndRollDetective
quote:Ever notice how the amounts they call out are usually policy limits?
constantly throw out high six figure dollar amounts
:shocked:
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:11 pm to TDsngumbo
Exactly and I understand that. But it seems like a testimony of maybe... "Morris Bart got my doctor expenses paid for" without specifying a huge dollar amount would get the message across without desperate people only seeing the number in the commercials and thinking "Damn, I gotta get myself injured somehow".
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:12 pm to RockAndRollDetective
quote:Sonny, you have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes.
But it seems like a testimony of maybe... "Morris Bart got my doctor expenses paid for" without specifying a huge dollar amount would get the message across without desperate people only seeing the number in the commercials and thinking "Damn, I gotta get myself injured somehow".
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:16 pm to RockAndRollDetective
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That unscrupulous people will try to create or purposefully put themselves in a dangerous situation so they can possibly hit a damages jackpot?
Those high settlements are for pretty significant injuries.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:24 pm to UpToPar
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Part of the problem is you have good people who have their medical bills denied after an accident and they have no choice other than to get an attorney involved. These people wouldn’t have “sued” otherwise but just wanted their medical bills paid for. Once they lawyer up, the lawyer isn’t going to stop at simple reimbursement since it’s his/her job to make as much money as possible. Thus a much higher payout results in the end.
This is rarely, if ever, the case.
That is the case between 75-85% of the time, conservatively
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:30 pm to UpToPar
quote:
Part of the problem is you have good people who have their medical bills denied after an accident and they have no choice other than to get an attorney involved. These people wouldn’t have “sued” otherwise but just wanted their medical bills paid for. Once they lawyer up, the lawyer isn’t going to stop at simple reimbursement since it’s his/her job to make as much money as possible. Thus a much higher payout results in the end.quote:
This is rarely, if ever, the case
I had to get an attorney involved to get them to pay to have my car fixed. I was parked in my car, drunk driver backed into my passenger side; and I still had to fight with them until I just went and signed with an attorney to let them deal with it.
All I wanted was my car fixed and my medical bills paid (muscle spasms in upper back), but they tried to fight me for comparable negligence.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:33 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Would like to kick each lawyer in the nuts. 
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:46 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Why do drug companies have to spend half their commercials broadcasting a long list of disclosures but trial attorneys don't have to disclose shite....
Posted on 8/26/19 at 4:53 pm to RockAndRollDetective
The small business my wife works for is getting sued by a slip-and-fall from earlier in the year.... bitch begged and begged to please use the bathroom so she was escorted through the back where people aren't supposed to go and sure enough. Slip. That's what you get for being nice and bending the rules to help someone who appears to be in need. I guarantee if they simply said no and the bitch shite herself in the lobby sh'd be suing for humiliation and mental anguish and racism etc.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 5:02 pm to HempHead
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solicit dumb people looking for a payout.
I think it was in Lafayette where I saw a commercial trotting out these "victims" who were saying "This was my wreck, this is my check". Some of these guys are not even trying to appear legitimate and responsible.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 5:03 pm to Rock the Casbah
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Why do drug companies have to spend half their commercials broadcasting a long list of disclosures but trial attorneys don't have to disclose shite....
Who the frick do you think writes the laws?!
Posted on 8/26/19 at 5:08 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Somebodies gotta pay the advertising bill.
Posted on 8/26/19 at 6:07 pm to RockAndRollDetective
A friend of mine was one of the actors in a commercial (i think ed womack) saying that 'ed got me $600,000' and then saying 'thanks ed' at the end of it. My buddy said that was one of the worst things he did because friends from high school were asking for money and he even had a guy at a bar asked for money because he knew my friend had 600k (im guessing the guy saw the commercial at the bar or just remembered him from the commercial).
Posted on 8/26/19 at 6:26 pm to tigerpimpbot
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That is the case between 75-85% of the time, conservatively
What are you basing this on?
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