Attorney-Client Privilege

Attorney-Client Privilege #lawyer #court #law #personalinjurylawyer

[tulipbuttercup]

This happens ALL the time! I got hit by a lady one time and she called her insurance company while I was right there had them on speakerphone and told them that it was 100% her fault. My insurance claim got denied saying that I was the one that hit her. Apparently the insurance company changed her answer. Infuriating!!!

[evanstavrou]

Just wanted to thank you I spoke to one of your reps when I inquired . They were lovely my issue was outside the scope of your organization however I was very happy with who I spoke too

[RandomAxeOfKindness]

A willful misrepresentation on an official filing document, with intent to defraud, is probably unethical? Man, the Bar Association is finally getting tough!

[LordBloodraven]

My insurance company broke ties with a law firm because one of their lawyers did this. We told the firm's senior partners and they ignored our complaint. It wound up working great for us because we hired a lawyer to work at our company rather than hire a firm to represent us. When i left the company, we had complete control over the legal department's behavior rather than relying on an outside firm.

[waroftheworlds]

I've had my interrogators' answers changed by my lawyer. I had evidence and put down my contact info. When I got the next revision back, my contact info was removed with no explanation given. They didn't reach out to me to see what the evidence was either.

Insurance lawyers are shady af.

[willard]

Because he thinks the client is the insurance company not the defendant.

[richardking]

Sounds like my divorce lawyer. His assistant copy/pasted his boilerplate divorce papers and sent them to my wife to sign. The wife read the papers and was confused about terms regarding our non-existent children. It's a good thing it was an uncontested, amicable, divorce because my lawyer was not great.

[greggweber]

IMHO, bring this up in open court so that the judge can do some reaming in front of the jury to make sure that they don't hold this against the defendant.

[andrewdarby]

If I'm on the jury and the defendant says under oath 'I have not been deposed and I have never seen this document before', I'm going to want an explanation. Now I know I don't get to ask questions and civil matters are not 'beyond a reasonable doubt', but that's not going to look too bad for them if they bring forwards 'my lawyer committed fraud and so I have ineffectual council', assuming they can back it up

[meh.]

Because the real client is the insurance company, and they will deny everything to avoid payment.

[casey]

Reminds me of enforcing consumer rights against the airlines here in Canada

They always file a reply that basically says “We don’t necessarily deny we flew them. We deny everything else.”

[alex]

I kinda feel bad for the defendant. Sounds like she's got a good basis to argue she had ineffective counsel. How did you deal with that?

Edit: malpractice, not ineffective assistance of counsel.

[georgesheffield]

Sounds like an insurance company lawyer 😂

[ameliasolis]

My sister hit someone in my car. I was teaching her to drive and she mixed up the gas and brake and t boned another driver who had the right of way. Now we were going slowly, because we were just driving around the neighborhood so no one was injured and the person we hit just got a small dent on his passenger door. But on calling my insurance to explain the situation where i state, "this is 100% our fault" they say we won't cover any damage to your vehicle (just a busted front bumper)but we will sue thier insurance to cover your damage to your vehicle. I said no I do not want to sue him for something that wasn't his fault! Insurance companies are trash

[peterpatrickcoyle]

In PA a response to a pleading to where the defendant has no knowledge of is a denial with a brief statement such as “defendant is without knowledge and requires no answer.” But the insurance company will just respond without talking to their clients all the time.

[AdamMPick]

In our parts of the world we have a word for it, I think it was "forgery".

[nessat]

That was shady, unethical AND stupid - to have absolutely no communication. In some cases there's VERY LITTLE communication, and the VERY FIRST (sometimes the only) thing the lawyer tells the client is: "Don't talk to the other side, just give them my number and that's it." That lawyer couldn't even bother to tell this PRIMARY INFO to their client :O

[scottlemiere]

He DID speak to his client: the insurance company.

[cajunguy]

Dude is a corporate lawyer, he didnt give a shit. Just collecting a check and doing the bare minimum

[talzumon]

DUDE THIS JUST HAPPENED TO US TOO! Is this just something common that defense does on their Answer??