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Stupid fucking client signed a release for $1K three days after retaining me
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:22 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Just, you know, on her own. I find out 9 days later. When its too late to rescind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473342) |
Date: October 18th, 2017 5:29 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap I'm going to demand my 33% of that $1K she so stupidly took. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473405) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:34 PM Author: vibrant puce halford your fault for not immediately making it known to other party that she was represented by counsel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473449) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:42 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Blue Menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473506) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:42 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Maybe so. We send letters out to carriers within a couple days of signed retainer agreement. She signed w us on Friday the 6th and then she settled her case on Monday the 9th. At intake I always counsel clients not to talk to adjusters except about fixing their car--no discussions on how accident happened and how they are doing. I didn't do intake on this particular case--another atty did, so it's possible he omitted that instruction. |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:44 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap I'm still sending a bill for costs incurred to date. How dumb can you get. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473528) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:25 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef How much did you put into the case already? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478751) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:30 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap probably just some photocopying bullshit I wish the office manager would stop glomming on as costs. Probably less than $30. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478797) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:19 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478698) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:21 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Man, come on! You know better Idris. Sign up was Friday afternoon. Client signed settlements Monday. Nobody sends letters to carriers that fast. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478722) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:23 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef Sounds to me like you have a good reason to withdraw as counsel.
She fucked her case over. There's no need for you to spend time and energy on a client who doesn't know how to let their attorney do the work. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:24 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap already done, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478741) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:51 PM Author: Electric buff karate library good thing the person she fucked most was herself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34473583) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 5:56 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Yep. Now how the hell is she even going to pay her medical bills with that settlement? Goofball atty who did the intake is trying to tell me its worth a fight to get a copy of the release (which was sent for clients signature ELECTRONICALLY--those tricksy insurance bastards--and see if it doesn't comply w statute requiring notice of right to rescind. Yeah. I know it fucking complies w statute. Carrier wouldn't use it if it didn't comply w statute. And I'm not going to file suit on the case just to get subpoena power. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:20 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef You're a racist piece of shit, btw.
But it always amazes me how attorneys will throw out stupid ideas when THEY aren't the ones who have to spend the time and effort to engage in the fruitless endeavour. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:23 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap except for your bullshit insult, yeah, Goofball can do that if he wants. I'm not.
But in the meantime I did get the release from adjuster gratuitously and it is correct. It even says You Can Consult W an Atty if you want.
I'm out of the case. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:11 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Well adjuster sent the releases. It's $600 for pain and suffering and up to $5K in medical expenses incurred within one month of treatment. Fucking idiot. I'm out. Just wait until the carrier refuses to send HER the money for the medical treatment and instead pays the docs directly. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:15 AM Author: sable degenerate Umm, carriers basically always pay the docs directly. LJL at releasing that money to proles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477894) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:16 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap of course. Of course they do. But she doesn't know that. And when she finds out she's going to be super pissed. And she's getting WAY less cash in hand than if she had just cooperated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477900) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:15 AM Author: shaky wagecucks so the other side's attorney talked to your client without you present? did he know you were representing her? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477897) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:16 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap no. read the whole thing man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477901) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:16 AM Author: shaky wagecucks ah, so you're retarded and a bad attorney. That's the moral of the story. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477906) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:18 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap (not an atty) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477915) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:16 AM Author: sable degenerate How is car accident litigation still a thing at all? Between dash cams and no-fault insurance for the first $100k of medicals the fuck is there for lawyers to do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477903) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:19 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap no fault insurance is only a thing in some places.
I WISH I always had $100K in coverage on cases.
Dash cams are not a regular thing. etc. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 10:56 AM Author: cracking abode Hint: it's about damages not liability (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478520) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:20 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap I often fight on liability on lane merger cases, multiple car accidents, intersections rdlight/green light, dart outs, pull outs, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478705) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 2:10 PM Author: sable degenerate Hint: carriers just pay policy limits since in most places the TTT policy limit is only 50k. This shit only exists because 43 states are too stupid to go no-fault and all 50 states are too dumb to mandate dash cams. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34480022) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 2:16 PM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap uh ... no. I don't just collect $50K checks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34480070) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:43 AM Author: Diverse Bbw Are you retarded? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478873) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 9:18 AM Author: plum native chickenthread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34477916) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 10:20 AM Author: saffron galvanic base so you get $333 and literally didn't lift a finger? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478267) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 10:22 AM Author: Bronze passionate space ran here for that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478274) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:18 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap Nah, in practice you cant do that. You just eat it. Otherwise you get bar complaints which you have to then spend time answering. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478691) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 2:13 PM Author: vigorous duck-like sweet tailpipe really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34480052) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:22 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef The problem is that there are probably medical liens dangling out there that take priority.
If she had $5,000 in treatment and only $666.00, then who do you think she's gonna turn her anger towards when she gets sued by the Hospital for non-payment? |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:24 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap medical liens don't take priority over Atty fees, dawg.
But to be clear I'm not taking fees. I just had some time wasted. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:26 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef True, but you don't want to deal with angry phone calls about why you got paid, but she's left with -5,000+ due to her medical expenses.
Waive the fee and expenses and just give her the boot. You don't want that headache from the Bar. |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:29 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap I have to SEND the bill out for expenses incurred to date. I have to show the bar we don't just waive fees. But I called our investigator and told him not to work up the case and incur any more costs.
Actually if you see above, the settlement she signed was one of those "We'll pay for your medical bills incurred up to $5K" deals, which is probably why she thought that was a good deal over and bove the chump change for pain and suffering. Boy will she be surprised when the carrier sends those payments directly to doctors! |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:31 AM Author: Razzmatazz cheese-eating shrine roast beef "Boy will she be surprised when the carrier sends those payments directly to doctors! "
Are you going to explain that to her before you fire her? |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:33 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap whats my obligation to make her feel worse than she already does? If she asks me, then yeah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478825) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:45 AM Author: Boyish Rehab Antidepressant Drug here's where she needs your legal assistance to reverse the settlement (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3767942&forum_id=2#34478882) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:50 AM Author: beady-eyed idiot jap There is a statutory relief mechanism but I wasn't put on notice of settlement until AFTER the relief mechanism time frame had passed.
And even if I had been so put on notice (which I wasn't), technically, the relief mechanism doesn't apply because she was not "unrepresented" at the time she signed the releases, which the relief mechanism requires.
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