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3 accused of staging car accidents, filing fraudulent medical claims in Miami-Dade
Read more: 3 accused of staging car accidents, filing fraudulent medical claims in Miami-DadeThree women are facing charges after an investigation uncovered a scheme involving staged car accidents and fraudulent medical claims, according to Miami-Dade police. On Monday, detectives executed a search warrant at Wise Care Corp., a clinic in Hialeah, following months of surveillance taking the clinic’s owner, a therapist and a receptionist into custody. Those women were…
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Why The Lawsuit Over Musk’s Pay Went Too Far
Read more: Why The Lawsuit Over Musk’s Pay Went Too FarSix years ago, a single Tesla shareholder—with just nine shares to his name—sued the electric vehicle company, arguing that CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package was unfair. The shareholder’s lawyers, in turn, saw a jackpot for themselves in the making. Last week, a Delaware judge sided with this lone shareholder, despite 72 percent of Tesla shareholders’ previously voting…
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New Orleans attorneys accused of staging vehicle accidents in fraud scheme
Read more: New Orleans attorneys accused of staging vehicle accidents in fraud schemeEight people and two law firms have been charged in what authorities say was more than a decade-long scheme of staging vehicle crashes in the New Orleans area and then submitting fraudulent insurance claims, leading to what prosecutors allege was the murder of one person to cover it up.
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Meet John Morgan, The Billionaire Lawyer Behind $350 Million A Year In Ads
Read more: Meet John Morgan, The Billionaire Lawyer Behind $350 Million A Year In AdsDespite the images on his over-the-top and omnipresent billboards, John Morgan isn’t an astronaut, swimsuit model, leather clad biker or Santa Claus. He’s a lawyer, a self-made billionaire and the founder of Orlando, Fla.-based Morgan & Morgan, the largest personal injury law firm in the U.S., with more than 1,000 lawyers (and 6,000 employees total)…
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Musk Loses, Trial Lawyers Win: Plaintiffs Firms Get $345 Million For Causing A Decline In Tesla Stock
Read more: Musk Loses, Trial Lawyers Win: Plaintiffs Firms Get $345 Million For Causing A Decline In Tesla StockCEO Elon Musk won’t be a pauper because a Delaware chancery court on Monday overturned his Tesla pay package—worth some $100 billion at the company’s current stock price. But the decision still sets a bad legal precedent that will damage American corporate law. Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick in January blocked Mr. Musk’s 2018 compensation plan on grounds that…
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Viral staged crash on NYC’s Belt Parkway probed by NYPD — as experts warn accident fraud cases are on the rise
Read more: Viral staged crash on NYC’s Belt Parkway probed by NYPD — as experts warn accident fraud cases are on the riseThe NYPD is investigating the disturbing staged accident on the Belt Parkway that went viral on TikTok — as experts said such insurance scams are on the rise in New York because fraudsters are “getting away with it.” A police spokesperson said Tuesday that detectives have interviewed victim Ashpia Natasha about the Oct. 16 caught-on-dashcam crash, in…
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Strippers And Settlements: Inside The Hard-Partying World Of America’s Wildest Lawsuits
Read more: Strippers And Settlements: Inside The Hard-Partying World Of America’s Wildest LawsuitsMike Papantonio is an evangelist for the gospel of mass torts. The 70-year-old shares the good news with his flock twice a year at the Wynn Las Vegas during the raucous Mass Torts Made Perfect conference. “You’re going to do well financially doing it,” he tells his lawyers, “but you’re also going to do something…
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MS-13, Russian mobsters use migrants in elaborate injury scam — even getting spinal surgery to pull it off: sources
Read more: MS-13, Russian mobsters use migrants in elaborate injury scam — even getting spinal surgery to pull it off: sourcesIt’s the melting pot of all scams. Russian gangsters, MS-13 members, and a cadre of corrupt surgeons, lawyers and lenders are pulling off the latest big con in the city: bogus personal-injury lawsuits where immigrants go under the knife to help their twisted ruse. Migrants and other desperate New Yorkers are pressured into getting unneeded spinal fusion surgery…
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NJ Law Firm Sued For Allegedly Botching Med Mal Action
Read more: NJ Law Firm Sued For Allegedly Botching Med Mal ActionNew Jersey law firm Bramnick Rodriguez Grabas Arnold & Mangan LLC has been hit a legal malpractice lawsuit in state court from a former client alleging the firm botched a medical…
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How personal injury lawyers took over your TV
Read more: How personal injury lawyers took over your TVDrive down any highway in America or turn on the TV for 10 minutes and you’ll probably see an advertisement for a personal injury lawyer. “Hurt in car crash? Injured on the job? Slipped in the store? Call this lawyer to get compensated now,” a typical ad for a plaintiff’s personal injury attorney goes. A…