Bizarrely these people cold call!
Yes, they target people from the phone book. And just often enough they hit coincidence and pay dirt. A couple of years back I helped a list member here try to track one down. They thought there was a leak. There was not. We met after I was cold called by one and I got in touch with the UK NHS hospital.
I'm sure the person I worked with will identify themselves to you privately, possibly publicly. The eventual outcome will be interesting, but these sharks and charlatans need to be stopped.
On 2 Mar 2010, at 14:16, Sara Owens wrote:
> Dear All
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> Has anyone had any experience with making holiday claims and injury lawyers?– we have a case where a patient had an accident and subsequently contacted their holiday insurance as they could no longer go on holiday.
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> Shortly after they received an unsolicited text message - giving details of their injury and how much they could help them claim
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> They initially thought it had come from the hospital but we obviously would not pass such information on – do insurance companies pass such details on routinely?
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> Regards
> Sara
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