Greedy Trial Lawyer
Trial Lawyers Mud Wrestle In Oklahoma
Category: Gaming The System
What could be more entertaining than a mud wrestling match between two greedy trial lawyers? (This is not a riddle.) How about a lawsuit in which the one who runs commercials featuring William Shatner is suing the one who is allegedly soliciting accident victims too soon after accidents? The news of this lawsuit comes from Oklahoma where they apparently take the "rules of the game" seriously. The problem, as I see it, is that finding a competent personal injury lawyer should not be a game.
Being a greedy trial lawyer does not require direct solicitation of accident victims nor celebrity spokespersons. The large majority of us earn our reputations the old fashioned way, one client at a time. We may inform the public of our experience through marketing or advertising, but we do not need to call on Captain Kirk or to steal accident reports from police agencies. Our ability to communicate with jurors is diminished each time one of us offends the public with improper and overly aggessive solicitations for clients.
The details of the Oklahoma mud wrestling match:
Two Tulsa personal injury attorneys are headed for a showdown in Tulsa County district court. One claims the other is cheating accident victims out of necessary downtime after an accident.News on 6 anchor Terry Hood says folks in Green Country will probably recognize the plaintiff in this case. Jeff Martin is known for his commercials featuring William Shatner. He says a competing firm is illegally getting accident information and soliciting victims while they should be recovering.
Martin's attorney says his client has uncovered evidence claiming employees from the Tulsa Beacon use their newspaper to get accident reports with victims' information.
Martin's lawsuit claims the Tulsa Beacon then funnels that information to the Bergman Personal Injury Law Firm, Bewley Chiropractic, and Trinity Restoration body shop.
Trinity Restoration's David Miller tells the News on 6, he had to fire a female employee because she was taking money for steering clients to other businesses, but he says that's all resolved and he doesn't know why he's included in the suit.
Jeff Martin's attorney says Martin wants to protect the public and keep all personal injury lawyers playing by the same rules. Paul DeMuro: "The concept of unfair competition has been around in Oklahoma since statehood. And it says, 'hey, we all ought to be playing by the rules of the game, and not the rules of the jungle.'"
The Tulsa Beacon's Charlie Biggs told the News on 6, he couldn't talk about the case. We made multiple calls to the other defendants at the Bergman Law Firm and Bewley Chiropractic, and were told they'd get back to us. So far, none have.
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