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After Crash Calls
By David B. Peel
No
one
legitimately
calls you to
offer you
free medical
treatment
after
an
accident.
Sometimes
after
an
accident you will get phone
calls saying that they are
with
the
insurance
company and they want
you to go to a certain
accident
clinic
or
chiropractor.
This is a solicitation
clear and simple. The
chiropractic board has
taken a stand against such
practices, as I understand
it. Certainly reputable
lawyers do not participate
in such affairs and are
ethically precluded from
doing so.
Recently
someone
indicated that they had an
accident on a Wednesday
and by Friday morning
they were getting calls
saying that medical care is
going to be provided as
part of some program.
Realize what this really
is. It is simply a scam.
And for the record, the
insurance companies that I
deal with know who the
reputable practitioners are
and only agree to pay
reasonable medical costs
from such providers.
So what if you have
been contacted by these
people. Well, you can turn
them in to both the
chiropractic board and the
medical board depending
on their licensu re. If an
attorney contacts you
unsolicited within 30 days
after an accident who you
don't
have
a
past
relationship with, you can
report them to the Board of
Professional
Responsibility.
Warn others who've had
accidents to be very careful
to whom they speak to on
the phone. If these folks are
not going to follow the
rules, it also means they're
not going to tell you the
truth.
All those calls end
briskly when you say,
“please speak to my
attorney.”
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August 2017