"I'll fight for you!"
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"I'll fight for you!"
https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/15/larry...ney-dead-dies/
One of the best known faces of the late '80s and '90s injury lawsuit boom.
This gave rise to a lot of imitators who would advertise during daytime TV in the early '90s, including one particularly egregious one which proclaimed, "You might be injured and not even know it!"
Some tort reform law slowed down these out of control injury claims, though the business still persists to some degree.
Parker was also criticized for popping up major accident victims and having them claim in commercials that "Larry H Parker got me $2.4 million", when in reality these people were massively injured and could not walk anymore. One of them they liked to show was a black guy they sat on a motorcycle, who in fact had no ability to ride one anymore.
A lot of shady lawsuits went down in those days.
These guys do provide a good service though. My uncle (now late uncle) was swiped by a drunk driver with no insurance. He basically was shelved with a broken hip for months. He hired one of those billboard attorneys you see on the highways saying call me if injured in a wreck. I thought for sure he was screwed since the driver had no insurance was was on parole and was going away for years, in other words he had no money. The firm went after the bar that served the driver, and the construction company that was doing work on the road and Medicare since he was 65. He walked away with nearly $300,000 when all said and done and the firm got their 40%. It did take a year to get paid, but he did get his money and all his medical bills paid.
It would be interesting to see how much those highway billboards cost, they obviously work.
The industry is strong and thriving here in Florida. You cannot go through a commercial segment without an ad for at least one. Morgan & Morgan is the biggest but there are plenty more spending what has to be tens of millions annually on TV ads and billboards.
And of course they advertise the huge awards they earned for clients until you read the fine print. They take 50% plus costs which I assume are inflated as well.
The ads also target each other with claims they don’t settle as much as XXXXX and get bigger awards. It’s definitely a cut throat industry and we are all paying for it with higher insurance rates.
All of us in Las Vegas also see this on the billboards all over. It would be nice to see the industry calm down some and be more ethical.
Note- Living in Nevada, best to incorporate to protect yourself against a possible frivolous lawsuit.
Yellow pages, hard to believe yellow pages was an advertising vehicle back in the day. When I worked at Dominos in the early 90s there were teens that would come in every day with xeroxed Dominos coupons, it was generally a buck or two off a large pizza. Finally we had enough and began refusing them. One day the franchise owner was in there and went nuts when some kid came in with obviously a copy of a phone book coupon and we refused the order. He took it and basically said he did not give a shit if it was a forgery or not, he wanted us to accept it. Later in the evening he calmed down and explained to us the dollar off coupon was spent last year and already factored into the cost because he raised prices. I was 17 and I am looking at him, this is the same guy who created a culture to pick up pepperonis off the floor and use them to save on food costs.
I remember mentioning on another Website something like," Take note that Law Injury advertising ALWAYS have the Victim who won a lot of money in a settlement being only shot from the stomach up. It's never a full body shot. How do we know the Victim didn't lose a leg or both legs and that's how they won that huge settlement?" Posters responded something like,"Damn, Karen Nathan made a good point!"
People paid thousands of dollars for the Fyre Festival only to end up living like Refugees! I feel sorry for them! How could anyone NOT feel sorry for them?
There is another large firm in Los Angeles called Jacoby & Meyers. Back in the late ‘80s I knew someone who sold a car to the daughter of one of the founders. She was an attorney also. She filled out the credit app and while looking it over he saw what he thought was an error and pointed out to her that it was asking for monthly income not yearly. She looked at it and said, no $150,000 that’s correct.
A lot of people think that personal injury attorneys are made up of all attorneys from lower-tier law schools and they tend to have shady reputations. However, you will find alot of these attorneys graduate from top tier schools. Part of the attraction is that unlike working for a large corporate firm there is a lot less pressure and stress. They don’t have the same type of requirements to bill hours out to clients and the work doesn’t have to come home with them, they can actually work more or less 9-5.
I was just looking at Jacoby & Meyers website, whoever does their hiring appears to have an eye for the ladies!
15 of their 19 associates are women.
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I deleted one post here and moved another to the Wizard of Vegas / DJ Chaps thread (because it belonged more there).
Thank you.
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