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Originally Posted by Dueller
With all due respect Steve (and I underwtand this may not be your thought process) taht is the exact attitude that makes my job difficult at times. Its not just the ambulance chasing lawyers that think this way...more often it is the "victims" who are frequently insanely unrealistic about the "value" of an injury.
We live in a modern society...not every bump, bruise ior emotional slight means Ed McMahon is gonna show up at your door with a 7 figure check.
My rant now over  |
Tell me about it, I'm just the messenger. I once got rear ended waiting at a red light with $7k and damage and the other party's insur co., Bristol West said $3k take it or leave it. Well, called my doctor and lawyer friends and they changed their tune immediately. In another instance, I clipped the rear bumper skin off a Camry that tried to speed around me as I was backing out of a parking space at Citibank. He took one look at me and my car and I saw $$$ rolling in his eyes. He tried adding an additional imaginary passenger in his car and tried suing my insurance company for $90k.
Trek, bear in mind, when you deal with ambulance chasing doctors and lawyers, insurance companies in California keep a blacklist, of which they won't admit to, of doctors and lawyers they deem to be questionable or 'crooked'. That happens when they don't dot all their i's and cross their t's when compiling their reports and it is caught.