Hospital Visit: From a “Runner”
Talked to a very nice gentleman this week who had a very interesting story to tell.
Seems he was injured in an accident and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He was admitted to the hospital and stayed overnight.
While there he was visited by a man who told him he had been sent by the hospital to provide him with post discharge care instructions and legal help. The instructions were really a referal to a chiropractor and the the legal help was a blatant in person solicitation by the law firm.
Here’s the deal: no one called this lawyer or his “runner” to the hospital. The man I was talking to said “I guess this is what they mean by ambulance chasers.
He eventually fired this law firm when he figured out that what they had done was blatantly unethical.
Our recomendation: NEVER hire an attorney who send someone to visit you BEFORE you have asked them to visit you. Unfortunately, this stuff goes on all the time and its a scam. The attorney and the chiropractor are in a joint venture to enrich themselves.
Gives everyone a bad name.
