Well that will put a dip in his income.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.

Bowling leagues, too, I imagine.

I've done both myself. Even subpoenaed ESPN's records after catching one of my claimants participating in a fully sponsored pro-am tournament that way (claiming a dominant hand wrist injury, no less).

Between organized sports and social media, they make it sooooo easy sometimes.

-Rob

My goodness, if you are going to attempt to scam an insurance company, you better not be on social media. Crime 101. Good luck.

He got canned

this thread makes me all Pringly

Crisp he be.

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.

Hehhehheh. Our firm did something similar.

Filmed the "incapacitated" plaintiff playing golf. Got him on the record in a deposition saying he couldn't even walk. Then rolled in the video monitor and played the tape of him walking the course, practicing his swing, etc. Case didn't end well for him.

So his employer told him to bag it?

Nobody ever complained that jobs weren't completed???

Dang it. (Aluminum)Foiled again.

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Originally posted by CoolRich59:

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Originally posted by Timdogg6:
When I did insurance defense work we used to send subpoenas to the USGA and state golf associations for all palintiffs, amazing that they had excruciating back pain but were reporting scores to track their handicap for golf tournaments.

Hehhehheh. Our firm did something similar.

Filmed the "incapacitated" plaintiff playing golf. Got him on the record in a deposition saying he couldn't even walk. Then rolled in the video monitor and played the tape of him walking the course, practicing his swing, etc. Case didn't end well for him.

The worst day in every PI lawyers life, when the defendants lawyers set up a meeting to discuss settlement, you make yourself comfortable in their conference room, a paralegal draws the window shades and shows the video.

A friend of man had that happen years ago, almost finished him. A case he had put months and months, thousands of dollars (back when a thousand was a lot of money!) and expected an enormous settlement from.

I was once part of a 3 week jury trial where the plaintiff claimed that his ortho injuries were so severe that he needed R shoulder and L knee surgery from his vehicle being struck by an empty freight car that got loose in a rail yard.

Now he was partially out of the vehicle at the time of impact and he was covered in diesel fuel but for quite a few days afterward he claimed no injury and was rather macho for surviving the encounter. That is until a PI attorney got ahold of him.

That all was just dandy except that he was an avid golfer and those body parts were the ones he needed to have surgery on from his golf. He was such a dumb fuck that he posted his scores online and he was down to around a 5 or so handicap. Surveillance showed that his MO was to go to 7-11 and buy a suitcase of beer and meet his golf buddies 3-4 days a week and shoot 18 holes.

The PI attorney was slightly irked to learn of this as we approached trial. Jury wasn't too pleased either when the plaintiff tried to explain that he was forced to golf because this accident so fucked up his life that he found no reason to live unless he could bury his hurt, stress and anger into golf.

After the trial his wife called asking why I further fucked up his life by putting up a strong defense and getting surveilance. Yes, people are that stupid.

Good days indeed.