Lowering of a profession

• Belly35

  

  In general lawyers are not high in the evolution scale in my opinion. Based from my personal and business affiliation with lawyers, theirs and mine. Plus the fact that I called out a lawyer friend on the counting of strokes and with addition evaluation of his score card was declared cheating. Note: We are not friends anymore.
  
  Last Friday I was in an accident. A car slide into the back of my 2007 Metallic Black truck that I refer to as MO ..... I just enjoy riding her. The accident bent my bumper, his fault, police report taken, I suggested no citation because of road condition, office agreed, information given, insurance claim already in progress, no injury, insurance will cover the damage and I get a new bumper. Estimated $1600.00 damage appraised done.
  
  It started on Monday the phone calls from lawyers wanting to know my physical condition, not one or two but a total of five phone calls. Today I go to my mail box and what is packed into the box but large envelops from six legal firms in the area, with CD, magnets, four color catalogs, custom stationary all wanting me to contact them … for the reason of what? To make a nice guy who accidently slide into my truck on a snow and icy road at a stop sign pay big time for nothing…. So the lawyer can take a greedy 1/3 and destroy a guys financial credit and family prosperity
  
  Lawyers should have to register as legal predators…. and force to wear pink sport coats
  
  I’m thinking of suing each of them for six figures and hire each one to sue the other for invasion of my personal property and privacy ….
  
  Has this lawyer vulturism ever happen to you? </SPAN>
• sleeper

  

  Yeah its happened to me. I usually sue, just to be a punk. I don't need the money.
• gorocks99

  

  Did you name your truck MO because it's a Ford, ergo "MOFOrd"? If so, you win the internet today.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Doit
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• Belly35

  

  gorocks99;1064053 wrote:Did you name your truck MO because it's a Ford, ergo "MOFOrd"? If so, you win the internet today.

  I will remember that for the next truck I buy if it is a Ford..
  I was thinking in a different direction...
• justincredible

  

  Lawyers suck, but there isn't a lower profession than web developer. Unemployed, scum of the Earth, assholes.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  justincredible;1064060 wrote:Lawyers suck, but there isn't a lower profession than web developer. Unemployed, scum of the Earth, assholes.

  
  Throw in Section 8 housing, and those guys don't deserve to live.
• justincredible

  

  ernest_t_bass;1064064 wrote:Throw in Section 8 housing, and those guys don't deserve to live.

  Absolutely.
• lhslep134

  

  Ambulance chasers are terrible, I agree, but to generalize lawyers as ambulance chasers is extremely ignorant.
  
  And yes, I've been affected by that vulturism when I was in a car accident as well.
• Little Danny

  

  It's called marketing baby. Personal injury lawyers drum up most of their business this way. If they relied on word of mouth only, they would hardly get any business, particular in these minor auto accidents that have very minimal value. The guys at the mill lawfirms work on volume.
• The Equalizer

  

  I thought gym teachers were the lowest of the low but that attorney sounds like a real crook.
• dlazz

  Belly35;1064048 wrote:Last Friday I was in an accident.

  Maybe you should've been more careful.
  
  Hope this helps.
• fan_from_texas

  Lawyers suck, but not as bad as insurance companies. I was in an accident a few weeks back, and dealing with the other driver's lawyers and insurance company made me hate those guys even more.
• Little Danny

  

  fan_from_texas;1064081 wrote:Lawyers suck, but not as bad as insurance companies. I was in an accident a few weeks back, and dealing with the other driver's lawyers and insurance company made me hate those guys even more.

  Who do you think trained the insurance executives to conduct business as they do?
  
  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982072.htm
• vball10set

  I voted
• Fab1b

  

  2 years ago while on vacation in Mexico my drunk ass got atop of a mechanical bull at the resort. Thank god it was the last night of the trip. When I got tossed off the thing I landed elbow point to the ribs and I was in trouble. Fastforward back to the states and in the hospital the next day. After treatment a few weeks later I get a letter from some law firm representating Aetna inquiring to what happened and they want to take legal action. I just threw it away, but they kept coming. So finally I responded on one of the info forms that it occurred in Mexico, I signed a waiver, I had been drinking, it was my own damn fault and I am not suing anyone. That was the last I heard about it.
• Fab1b

  

  Now when it comes to insurance I can tell that most I mean most people do not understand their coverage and think they are covered for anything that happens! Now can insurance companies be dicks, certainly, but I have taken enough claims from people to know they honestly have no clue how their insurance really works!
• Gblock

  Fab1b;1064096 wrote:2 years ago while on vacation in Mexico my drunk ass got atop of a mechanical bull at the resort. Thank god it was the last night of the trip. When I got tossed off the thing I landed elbow point to the ribs and I was in trouble. Fastforward back to the states and in the hospital the next day. After treatment a few weeks later I get a letter from some law firm representating Aetna inquiring to what happened and they want to take legal action. I just threw it away, but they kept coming. So finally I responded on one of the info forms that it occurred in Mexico, I signed a waiver, I had been drinking, it was my own damn fault and I am not suing anyone. That was the last I heard about it.

  sounds like you have a case..if you were drunk you may have been too impaired to understand what you were signing...just saying
• Fab1b

  

  Gblock;1064102 wrote:sounds like you have a case..if you were drunk you may have been too impaired to understand what you were signing...just saying

  That is a good point, contract null and void! Nah I knew what I was doing and it was a total fluke. They had padding set up etc...I knew when I was being thrown off and I posted my arms to catch myself and just landed completely wrong. I do have to say though it totally sucked ass for about 2 months after that!
• fan_from_texas

  Little Danny;1064086 wrote:Who do you think trained the insurance executives to conduct business as they do?
  
  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982072.htm

  That's fascinating. When dealing with USAA, it seemed to me that they were being "reasonably unreasonable"--e.g., skimming about $500 off my claim, which is presumably a sum that's too small to fight over. They were really a bunch of jerks about the whole thing, even though I was pretty fair and reasonable.
• Little Danny

  

  fan_from_texas;1064107 wrote:That's fascinating. When dealing with USAA, it seemed to me that they were being "reasonably unreasonable"--e.g., skimming about $500 off my claim, which is presumably a sum that's too small to fight over. They were really a bunch of jerks about the whole thing, even though I was pretty fair and reasonable.

  $500 bucks here, $500 bucks there.... when you consider these insurers handle millions of claims over a year it adds up to a boat load of money-- particularly for the big dogs like State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide, etc.
• fan_from_texas

  Little Danny;1064125 wrote:$500 bucks here, $500 bucks there.... when you consider these insurers handle millions of claims over a year it adds up to a boat load of money-- particularly for the big dogs like State Farm, Allstate, Nationwide, etc.

  Yes, that's what I figured when I was talking to them. There appeared to be a very deliberate unwillingness to fairly value my vehicle (which their insured totaled). They said I could take it or go to court if I wanted. But they must realize that very few people will go to court over a few hundred bucks, so it's a safe way to skim. Annoying as hell.
• Fab4Runner

  

  fan_from_texas;1064081 wrote:Lawyers suck, but not as bad as insurance companies. I was in an accident a few weeks back, and dealing with the other driver's lawyers and insurance company made me hate those guys even more.

  Lol I love that you say lawyers suck. The few I know (as well as a few law students) are all good people. That said, I've never had to deal with one regarding a business matter, etc.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Fab4Runner;1064154 wrote:Lol I love that you say lawyers suck. The few I know (as well as a few law students) are all good people. That said, I've never had to deal with one regarding a business matter, etc.

  dealing with them personally and professionally are completely different. Some are nice people outside of work but pitbulls when it comes to doing their job
• Fab4Runner

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1064159 wrote:dealing with them personally and professionally are completely different. Some are nice people outside of work but pitbulls when it comes to doing their job

  I don't doubt that at all.