Cracker Backer:
My post is 100% accurate. For every letter from an attorney an individual involved in a rear ender receives they will also receive a letter from a chiropractor offering them a "free visit". My biggest problems are not insurance companies but rather attorneys and chiropractors who send out these letters, advertise on late night tv, and otherwise make lawyers look like ambulance chasers.
I don't recall anywhere in my post where I said "all chiropractors" are in cahoots with pi attorneys in an effort to build special damages. I said to steer clear of those that advertise and solicit your business viz a viz letters to accident victims offering free visits and consultations.
I will further disagree with your comment about a "few bad apples". In each case I have wherein my client has received an unsolicited letter from a chiro after a rearender and has treated with the guy its been nothing but problems. He ends up having the client sign a lien letter, gives them manipulations and adjustements 3x per week for six months at $150 a pop. Your over 10k in specials before you can sneeze (which by the way, I know some chiropractors indicate they can cure with a manipulation).
And guess what happens to this guy when settlement time rolls around. He has an emergency room vist at $400 and $15000.00 in chiro bills for a cervical sprain. No real doctor treatment. Insurance company offers $6000. Now what!!!! Take it to trial??? Not me brother.
As I said earlier, around these parts, a jury 9 times out of 10 will return a defense verdict or a verdict less than the companys offer. Complete loser of a case. In essence, due to the lien letter, what I would in effect be doing is just trying to collect your bill. Is that service to my client? I don't think so.
I define legal representation in such a case as to advise the client that in general, chiro will hurt there legal case but they should seek whatever care they want for there physical well being. Are there good chiro's who don't overtreat, sure. But I completely disagree with you that they are the majority good apples.
I would rather have my clients get a script from an ortho for pt which I consider the same as chiropractic only sanctioned as traditional medicine. Why take a chance with one of the apples, whether they are the few as you contend or the majority as I contend.
There is a chiropractor in Cincinnati who has advertised that he can treat ADD (attention deficit disorder) with manipulation, adjustments hot packs etc. instead of traditional medication. Do you have any concept of what this could do to some poor uneducated person who reads this ad and decides to have there child treat with this charlatan in lieu of traditional medicine? As scummy as some of my bretherens advertisements are, I don't think we, as a profession have ever stooped this low.
You are the idiot.
Eddie
