You obviously send out a good amount of volume and have this pre negotiated with the imaging center? our typical LOP settlement is closer to 1600-1800.
Though the Wild Wild West reference was more related to the general interactions between attorneys / chiros / PI doctors / the imaging center.
I had one this morning at 9:30AM. Started drinking yesterday at 3:45 before going to Astros game Not ideal
no. Most of our LOPs are doubles. Billed charges is like 5k. I’m looking now you take out the dogs (like some 50 and 80 dollar settlements) our typical reimbursement is in that range i referenced above. I’m relatively green (worked health insurance side my whole career) so I don’t know if it’s the same in all states but in Florida on cases with PIP we are paid 80% of 2x 2007 Medicare allowable.
Gallant Knight on a case where PT is being treated by a chiro, you direct where the PT goes for imaging or the chiro? Same question if treated by ortho.
It’s probably 50-50 on who decides. I have imaging centers I definitely prefer and if they ask I will say one of them but I only tell the chiro to not send somewhere if they’re trying to send somewhere awful-like a place that has a fraud conviction or has a chiropractor reading the films
thanks. We just put in a brand new 3T magnet and locked up a top tier trained MSK radiologist to read for us who knows how to word his reports correctly. It’s starting to pay off with the orthos and chiros but harder with some of the attys who have preexisting relationships with our competitors.
Oh yeah I don’t really give a shit about the specs of the MRI at all or really the radiologist I’ve met zero of the radiologists who work for the facility’s I work with
My advice is to hire a marketer and have her meet with a bunch of lawyers. I talk to the marketing girl for my preferred mri facility at least a few times a month and I think she makes a small base and then gets paid based on how many scans they bring in
That is what we have, I think we need another one though. We use a CRM for the doctor visits. Need to get serious and add the attorneys also.
I have a great tractor-trailer case (for me at least) that I filed last week. What do I get this morning? Oh, just a notice that the insurance company is insolvent, in receivership, and is not even providing a defense for insureds. Fun stuff.
Alabama has a department of insurance, but no clue if it guarantees anything. I've never had this come up before. I'm praying for a claims made policy.
i've never run into it but i know someone who has. call the dept of insurance and theyll be able to tell you what the deal is
have a defendant's depo in an hour. my client is scooter bound and she was in a crosswalk, defendant at a stop sign, he i guess doesn't see her and hits her and knocks shit out of her. found him on facebook and he has a post "Westheimer (busy street in houston) makes me wanna GTA "popcurbs" someone responded--steal cars?!?! and he responded to that person: "More like run over people lol" this should be a fun one
Sitting at opposing counsel’s office waiting on my client to show up for her deposition, for which she is now 25 minutes late and has canceled the day of twice already. Not ideal.
Finally having to get a second assistant to help keep up with my work load. My paralegal is good but with around 60 PI cases including many litigated and complex med mal, premises , trucking etc and another 52 comp cases, we need more help. Trying to just do a legal assistant instead of having to pay another paralegal salary. All the resumes have been pretty bad so far.
Aren't there some auto policies that exclude intentional acts? I thought I've heard of something similar although I could be wrong and making it up. I hope you popped him good.
Of course we have. My assistant was calling, texting, and emailing as I posted that, too. She informed us that she was confused about the date, which we confirmed twice this week (email and phone), and that her son was having surgery today. This is probably going to be the first case I've been involved in where the carrier pulled coverage for lack of cooperation. What's worse is that the plaintiff is a literal crackhead. It would be nearly impossible to be less reliable/credible than her, yet somehow here we are.
Most insurance policies exclude intentional acts, but it would be a bold move for a carrier to accept the plaintiff's claim that it was intentional and deny coverage.
To be clear I don’t think he did it on purpose, I doubt I even attempt to introduce this in a trial. I just fucked with him yesterday and he was rattled so it had the intended affect itttt was a joke oh my god oh my god!!!
Short of him saying "yeah, that was on purpose," there is no carrier on earth who would deny coverage under the intentional acts exclusion. They'd be getting served with a bad faith complaint before the ink was dry on the denial letter.
Etowah. It’s defensible on liability, and my client is actually pretty decent when she explains what happened. She’s just less reliable than a literal crackhead. But, I’ve still recommended they just pay.
Had that on the opposite side a couple of years ago. Thought we had a couldn’t lose case. Despite multiple prep sessions, worst depo I’ve ever sat through in my life. Turns out, any problems we had were not input problems but hard drive problems. Made some money, but about 10% of what I would’ve initially thought.
At a mediation today and defense lawyer in his opening acted like his rodeo volunteer was equal to if not better than my client who is a disabled veteran would love for some of y’all to come try a case in Houston to see what I have to deal with
we settled this case. the dude agreed to X. the mediator was an old lady and has like hand tremors so on her handwritten mediation agreement it looks like she added an extra 1 to the settlemnt. IE making 115k more like 1115k. we actually put in parenthesis above that the actual number and defense lawyer and i both initialed so it was clear. the dude signs off. i tell him i need to finalize reductions with providers but he is going to get Y +/- $1k. he seems fine. he just called and was like it looks like 111k and i want that! if not can i go to trial was like bruh no you signed off and it was a typo. he was like it wasnt a typo it was handwritten!!!! moral of the story: i hate all of my clients.
lol i think there is an 80% chance he is going to file a grievance over him signing an agreement to settle his case at mediation. that should be fun.
Update on my employment situation from a couple weeks ago: I got the job offer and have cleared conflicts for this new firm. Will be advising current firm Friday of my 2 weeks. I vetted all my concerns and feel pretty good about it. I am not looking forward to telling my managing partner. He won’t be mad or anything, it’s more just me being dramatic. I never thought I’d ever leave this firm unless it was to go in house. Certainly not for a lateral move. But, more money for less work. Better part of the deal was that, while this position is on a specialized team and off the partner track, the managing partner of the home office with my new firm really took a liking to me. He basically said if I perform, which I will, and ever want to transition back over to the partnership angle, then I’ll have a spot.
I've cleared out most my settlements for the year so I'm pretty much done relative to income. I'm sure I have a few minor settlements here and there before the end of December. But for the most part, I've done my damage and I'm just maintaining through the end of the year. Had a big year, made a lot of fees, things are going pretty well.
I hope you get paid over $200k a year. That’s about how much it would take for me to subject myself to that. Good luck to you.
Have this case where a guy in a dump truck ran a redlight and tboned my lady who was driving a school bus. The police report said the adverse driver said at the scene that he tried to stop but couldn't. It said his tires were bald and the front right shocks were broken. During his depo he said he blacked out and has no memory from before he approached the redlight until when he ended up at the hospital. He doesn't remember telling the police officer he couldn't stop. He didn't disclose in his interrogatory answers that he was arrested for possession of meth with intent to distribute a few years back. I only new that because I had a background check on him from a PI. Then when I subpoena'ed the records on the meth charge I also go some records regarding felony assault on a police officer. He also has been in some back wrecks while driving commercial rigs including a fatal wreck for which he said he was cleared of fault. I want to know why he said he couldn't stop. Well the 30b6 was supposed to be tomorrow but opposing counsel stipulated to liability and vicarious liability last week. In MS if he admits to vicarious liability then ancillary claims to negligent retention, supervision are gone. This stuff can still come in during the punitive phase if you get there. He files an objection to my 30b6 topics and says since he admitted liability and vicarious liability I can basically only ask about factual issues of the wreck during the 30b6 and can't ask about maitenance , driver history, what due diligence trucking company did before hiring this driver, safety practices, etc. He also just filed for summary judgment on punitives today. I know these are common tactics. Not sure how my trial judge is going to rule on this stuff. I have the depo of the police officer coming up. I'm definitely going to plead that more discovery is needed before you can rule on summary judgement. Also under defendant's theory, if you admit liability and vicarious liability, then you can't get any discovery on maintenance, safety, or driver history and thus would be immune to punitive damages even if you hired the worst driver ever, had a shitty safety record, and put said shitty driver behind the wheel of a vehicle that had no business being on the road and knew all this.