Liar, liar
The #1 thing we tell our clients is to be honest with us, honest with their doctors and honest with themselves. A case will blow up if you do anything else. You will get caught under surveillance or by a company doctor. We've seen cases where neighbors have turned in liars and it's resulted in an arrest for workers' compensation fraud.
But a story we heard from an attorney we know takes the cake for worst liar ever, even worse than Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton or the family of the balloon boy. Long story short is that his client had an arm injury and told her doctor that she couldn't lift it above her head. Well the insurance company contested the case and forced a trial. No big deal, happens all the time.
Well at trial the defense attorney asks her what happens if she tries to lift her arm above her head and she described a terrible pain that shoots through her whole body. He then proceeds to play a video tape of her on a trashy talk show about men who cheat and it showed her just months prior lifting her arm above her head and repeatedly striking her ex.
Most lawyers will tell you that Matlock moments like this just don't happen and they really don't happen at the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission. But it did because she was a liar. And she killed her case because she actually had a legitimate injury to begin with.
If our clients lie to us we drop them. Period.
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