Are You SURE You’re Not Injured?

As the regular readers of The Doc File know, I was in a car accident which was not my fault a little over a month ago.

Starting a week or so after the accident, a steady flow of letters started trickling in. They usually began like this:

“Dear Robert (my first name):

This is a letter of solicitation. If you have already retained an attorney for your personal injury claim, please disregard this letter. Our investigations of police records indicate that you may have been injured in an accident…”

They would then go on to encourage me to call them, and then would try to persuade me why I should entrust my case to them—usually because they were cheap, or experienced in personal injury cases.

One of the lawyers was actually a former paramedic and even confided in me that he too had been in a car crash before he became a lawyer (as if this were a rare shared experience that would build trust with me)!

Unfortunately, none of these upstanding, respectable ambulance-chasers got any business from me, mainly because I didn’t suffer any injuries.

The fact that they were generally clueless about what my last name was didn’t help them either.