I swear I am not sue happy. However, some insurance companies are so rude and frankly insulting when it comes to the treatment of handling claims that law suit is the only language they seem to listen to. Recently I had a very heated telephone conversation with an insurance adjustor for Progressive. While he had the authority to pay out the medical expenses of my client and her toddler son, he boldly refused to on the simple grounds that she and her son waited too long before starting treatment with a physician. “Too long” in this case was a mere 7 week period over Thanksgiving and Christmas. My clients in this story are not very well off and tried everything they could to avoid seeing a doctor notwithstanding the pain they were in because they simply couldn’t afford it. Finally the pain became too severe and they went in for treatment. To their surprise they were happy to find out that in an accident case their medical expenses would be reimbursed. Feeling relieved and at peace that they could finally get some help they began chiropractic treatment.
The insurance company of course feels that this was a “low speed” and a “very minor impact” accident. The joke of it all is that too many personal injury attorneys get in the habit of rejecting smaller cases or settling them out quickly so they can focus on bigger fish that the custom in this industry is to just ignore the pain and suffering and medical expenses and pay a paltry sum of money out to the victims to get them to go away. In my case, the insurance company is only offering $350 to the toddler boy who treated with a chiropractor for several months because he was so twisted up from this alleged “very minor impact.” I haven’t seen a figure this low in many many years. It is downright insulting.
Next step – file a lawsuit and finally get some earned justice for my clients. Most insurance companies literally bank on the fact that most lawyers will not spend the thousands of dollars to file a law suit on such a “small” case. Well, they don’t know me very well. Out of principle a lone I will enjoy dragging these clowns through court and highlighting their woefully inadequate settlement offers and backwards business policies that lead us to have to file in the first place. For your viewing pleasure the insulting offer is below (redacted to protect the privacy of my clients).
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