How to get sued for $1.5 million for personal injury while taking a shower.

[jeff47]

46. We can only go with what's here.

With the information here, it looks like they're trying to settle.

Also, there's plenty of plaintiff's attorneys who get paid regardless of victory - plaintiff's attorneys do not have to take all cases on contingency.

My point was that Plaintiffs' attorneys don't file suit without an injury because it's a waste of time to do so.

Well, here's the two cases I'm personally familiar with:

Car pulls out in front of a friend of mine in high school, and the friend hits them when they suddenly slow down. People in the car sue. Unfortunately for them, this friend's father investigates car accidents for insurance companies. So they quickly determined that 1) The plaintiff's had disconnected their break lights, 2) the accident did not have enough force to cause the injuries they were claiming and 3) the plaintiffs had switched which one was driving their car between the scene and the court papers.

Even with that information, the insurance company wanted to settle the case because it was cheaper than fighting it. And apparently this scam was quite lucrative - more than 90% of the business of the plaintiff's attorney and their doctor's business was car accidents. The "victims" had all been in lots of car accidents over the previous two years. The friend's father had to fight like hell to bring the case to trial.

They won the trial handily, and the information from the trial sent the plaintiffs to prison for fraud. The plaintiff's attorney lost his license (was a 'last straw' after a bunch of other issues), and the doctor retired before the medical board was done looking at him. But the insurance company really, really, really wanted to settle to save money. Despite the case being so much of a slam dunk it resulted in fraud charges.

The second case: My family builds houses. A third party asked to see the plans for a particularly unique house we were building, and we showed them to him. He asked for a copy, and we refused to give him one - that would violate the architect's copyright. He the sued claiming racial discrimination. An no, no one had used anything like a racial slur. His claim was that we would have given him copies if he was white. Literally. He did not claim any mistreatment other than not getting a copy of the plans.

Again, the insurance company insisted on settling. Even though the case was utterly absurd.

There's plenty of plaintiff's attorneys who will file a case to see if the insurance company settles. It costs the filing fee and a couple hours of time. If the insurance company settles, payday. If the insurance company refuses to settle, the case is dropped before it costs significant money.