Soft Tissue Injury Fraud

September 29, 2009By Justin Petty 1 Comment

soft tissue injury fraud

There is a common idea among insurance adjusters that the majority of soft tissue injury claims are fraud.

Let me put my opinion out there.  As an injury adjuster for years, I saw almost every type of injury claim out there, including a lot of soft tissue injuries.  For those of you who don’t know, soft tissue injuries are injures that do not include any breakage of the skin or bones.  They are normally describes as strains or sprains.  Anyway, here is why adjusters think there is such rampant fraud. . . .

Attorneys and chiropractors solicit accident victims.  I have seen it many times and the victim is an innocent bystander to the actual fraud.  Here’s the common scenario.

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