Now I Wonder Why That Went Wrong
I had a call the other day from a woman who wasn’t happy with her lawyer. I asked how she got to him in the first place an she said, “The physical therapist that the insurance company sent me to told me to hire him.”
To the detriment of my bottom line, I’ve always refused to seek out referrals from doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists and others. That’s not to say that they’ve never recommended our service, but so many lawyers have a tit for tat relationship with medical providers that is just scummy. Those types of recommendations don’t usually focus on the best needs of the client, especially when a lawyer is trying to direct you to a certain doctor.
Aside from the scummy feel, it can also hurt your case. Insurance companies know when one lawyer seems to have the same doctor on all of his cases. Arbitrators tend to know this stuff too. You can have a real legitimate injury that gets denied because no one trusts your medical provider.
And something must be strange in the water lately because I got another call shortly after this first one from a woman who hired a workers’ compensation attorney that began sleeping with her. This is a big ethical no-no and she has already reported the attorney to the disciplinary board. But I have to say that if you are willing to sleep with your lawyer, it shouldn’t surprise you when their representation is terrible. It’s obviously beyond unprofessional. If you want to have sex with an attorney you’ve hired, fire them, hire someone legit and then sleep away.
As you can probably imagine, the “relationship” with the attorney blew up and then the case did too. Honestly, I blame the worker in this one as much as I blamer the shady attorney.
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