>“The company never tried a single case it now claims was fraudulent,” the law firm said. “If Uber truly believed these claims were meritless, it had every opportunity to take them to trial. It chose not to.”

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DOWNTOWN LA LAW GROUP,

IGOR FRADKIN, THE LAW

OFFICES OF JACOB EMRANI,

JACOB EMRANI, GSK SPINE, GREG

KHOUNGANIAN, and RADIANCE

SURGERY CENTER

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5753124&forum_id=2Reputation#49120113)

in the Los Angeles area are engaged in this fraud scheme. The lawyers direct

claimants to pre-selected medical providers to receive procedures for minor or nonexistent injuries. Following unnecessary and/or causally unrelated treatment, certain

providers generate and submit artificially inflated bills for such treatment. These bills

are issued on a lien basis.

Rather than using claimants’ own medical insurance for

treatment, the claimants instead enter into lien agreements with the medical

providers, which grant such providers a lien on recoveries from the claim and purport

to promise full payment to the medical providers in the event of a shortfall in

recovery. Such arrangements are shams. In reality, the claimants’ lawyers and certain

medical providers secretly enter into side agreements under which the medical

providers agree to substantially discount their bills in the event that the recovery is

insufficient to pay the artificially inflated medical bills. Because the side agreements

are concealed, the medical bills are false and misleading. The bills are then utilized

as the basis for a false and artificially inflated damages claim.

3. The secret side agreement functions as a kickback. In exchange for a

steady supply of claimants from the lawyers, certain medical providers agree to

surrender their lien rights. The lawyers profit because they receive priority recovery

of their fees and other costs. The medical providers profit because when a claimant

has a successful claim, the providers recover on most or all of their artificiallyinflated bills. And the lawyers and medical providers walk away with larger

recoveries than their personal injury clients.

4. Claimants are passed along to medical provider scheme participants

without regard to their need for actual medical treatment. Lawyers send claimants

with no or negligible injuries caused by the purported underlying accidents to the

medical providers with the foreknowledge that the medical providers will

recommend and deliver a variety of unnecessary medical treatments including

surgery, and will thereafter submit an artificially inflated bill, and/or recommend

future surgeries with artificially inflated estimated fees. As such, it is routine for the

medical providers to produce fraudulent documents diagnosing non-existent or

exaggerated injuries, falsely linking these injuries causally to the accidents and then

proposing and performing costly, invasive, and/or unnecessary surgeries. Together

with the artificially inflated resulting bills, the attorneys use these fraudulent

documents and unnecessary treatments as a basis for fraudulent lawsuits and/or

claims for damages.

5. Because of such overtreatment and inflated liens held on the recovery

by the various medical providers involved, the claimants themselves commonly walk

away with relatively minimal recovery compared to the fees that the lawyers and

medical providers receive.

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>25. Many of Fradkin’s and Emrani’s clients actually have health insurance.

But to maximize their eventual recovery in their fraudulent lawsuits, Fradkin and

Emrani steer these claimants away from medical providers who would bill their

health insurance. Instead, these claimants are directed to specified medical providers,

selected by the attorneys, who bill on a lien basis pursuant to a kickback scheme, in

which certain medical providers agree to surrender their lien rights in exchange for a

steady supply of claimants from the lawyers. These medical providers, including

Khounganian and/or Radiance Surgery Center, require claimants to sign lien

agreements under which the claimants agree to pay the providers from recoveries on

their claims.

...

so the plaintiffs rationally chose to engage in a process that gets them more money in their pockets? maybe that bc their insurance carrier would screw them

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>bills, so the lawyers can (i) falsely claim credit for obtaining a discount on their bill

and (ii) deliver a minimal recovery to clients to preserve their ability to attract more

clients in the future.

29. In exchange for secretly agreeing to discount their bills, the medical

providers receive a steady stream of referrals from the lawyers. The arrangement is a

kickback scheme.

30. Because of the liens that Khounganian and other providers hold on their

recoveries, the claimants see little financial recovery from the fraudulent cases

relative to the high payouts that the attorneys, Khounganian, and other providers

receive.

...

note they dont say the plaintiffs would be better off not hiring a lawyer and trusting their insurance company to act in good faith to fully compensate them.

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Also insurance adjusters are assholes when clients treat through their own health insurance. They ALWAYS offer shit even with the same exact treatment because they know that the providers aren't testifying at trial and because they're huge assholes.

Asshole carriers and adjusters are the ONLY reason that the SoCal lien provider cottage industry is the biggest medical enterprise in the world

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theyre not suffering damage from having to pay out allegedly inflated claims unless theyre self insuring

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It’s really weird how they probably paid these firms hundreds of millions in settlements, refused to try or arbitrate any cases (knowing the risk they’ll get hit in LA) and now they’re filing this without any evidence those cases weren’t meritorious. You’d think they’d need a defense verdict or some damning evidence to back these allegations up.

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sure they've paid premiums, but that's not damages -- and creates a whole issue of causation which makes this a shitty lawsuit.

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