Burbank, CA asked in Insurance Bad Faith, Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation for California

Q: a corrupt doctor had my supportive care ended, the lawyer and insurance co were complicit ! I have documentation please

Please help, the attorney made false pleadings to the judges, the doctor did not even see me for 10 minutes and never examined me.

the recent laws changed helped them to squash my pleadings. I've gone as far as I can . they made so many lies that can be proven with electronic files. The hearings were a joke , I was told I should have an attorney or just yelled at during the hearings. I could not get an attorney because my case was settled years earlier and nobody would take it. I am still on the same medicines, same doctor etc, for years the only thing is I will owe thousands in doctor visits. I already pay my pharmacy. This is about a doctor that was a ins. co . pawn. They lied to get me to AZ. and that's all they wanted for me to show up. When I tried to ask the doctor questions in the hearing he claimed amnesia, and said he sees 2 to 3 thousand patients a year and does 50 to 60 IME's a year, I figured it out and even at the lowest figure that is 12.5 patients per day in a year.

2 Lawyer Answers
Dale S. Gribow
Dale S. Gribow
Answered
  • Palm Desert, CA
  • Licensed in California

A: MORE INFO NEEDED.

YOU NEED A LAWYER THAT IS WILLING AND CAPABLE OF HANDLING THIS MATTER ON A CONTINGENCY......IT IS NOT MY FIRM AS WE DON'T DO THAT KIND OF MATTER.

MOST LAWYERS DO NOT WANT TO THROW THEIR OWN MONEY AT LITIGATION THAT MAY BE STALE?

I ASSUME IF THIS WAS A GREAT CASE, THAT SOME OF THE LAWYERS WITH WHOM YOU SPOKE, WOULD CONSIDER IT. THE FACT THAT LAWYERS HAVE REJECTED THE MATTER SUGGESTS IT MAY NOT HAVE THE VALUE YOU THINK IT HAS.

Nancy J. Wallace agrees with this answer

Nancy J. Wallace
Nancy J. Wallace
Answered
  • Workers' Compensation Lawyer
  • Grand Terrace, CA
  • Licensed in California

A: The trouble with this scenario is the damage was done when this doctor was selected. There is no mechanism for a lawyer to get paid anything in this fact pattern. I read there already were hearings. This means a judge has made a ruling. A ruling has to be appealed within a few days. PLUS there has to have been a judge error in the hearing to appeal. Just having a different opinion than the judge is NOT a 'judicial error'. IF YOU HAD documentary evidence that this physician was not factual, the WCAB Judge would have made a finding on that and dismissed the physician's reports as evidence. It appears this was not done. Sadly, there is nothing more to do now but to warn others to have an attorney before selecting the QME/IME physician; once a doctor 'in bed' with an insurer writes his report, you're sort of 'married' to him. You cannot, as they say, "unring the bell".

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