Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of masterminding an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents.Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of masterminding an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents.Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of masterminding an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 1996 "sudden stop" car accidents conspiracy in Chicago, Illinois.
- GoofsIntentionally causing minor vehicle collisions (fender benders) doesn't constitute creating a situation that causes a grave risk of death, so charging those involved with depraved indifference homicide (second degree murder) in this case would not be appropriate as ADA Carmichael suggests. However staging minor vehicle collisions does show a reckless disregard for the safety and well-being of the passengers in the cars involved in the staged "accidents", the appropriate charge for an accidental death caused by an action that constitutes reckless endangerment is manslaughter in the second degree.
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ME Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: It could definitely be from an auto accident. Cause of death was a dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, caused by severe blunt force trauma.
Detective Ed Green: If it was so severe, why wasn't he more beat up?
ME Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Oh, I've seen cases with no exterior bruising. It's a deceleration injury.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: As in motor vehicle deceleration.
ME Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: As in whiplash. He's thrown forward, then he gets pulled back by the seat restraints. This extreme jerking motion can cause traumatic injury to the aorta.
Sam Waterston describes this as a 'cottage industry'. And the captains of this industry are lawyer partners Matthew J. Burg and Christopher Patrick Mullen. They filed personal injury lawsuits for almost 300 claims for these whiplash type lawsuits because they're not easy to prove or disprove. They hire mostly illegal alien day laborers for a couple hundred dollars and send them all to the firm's personal for hire chiropractor. The lion's share of the settlements go to them.
Law And Order occasionally has some unscrupulous lawyers portrayed and Burg and Mullen are two of the worst. The miracle is no one caught on before this.
As for the victim and in this case the surviving family.they get a pittance for essentially being live crash dummies.
A real bottom feeding racket.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 17, 2020