'If it was just a general legal firm it might be a different matter, but this appears to condone
ambulance chasing. It could also mean that people will see the hospital as recommending a particular firm of solicitors.
Ambulance chasing is the practice of erring lawyers to urge their clients to file cases against their employers with the motive collecting a portion of their monetary benefits, which will be awarded by the courts.
"It is a sign of the times, but it would be wrong to describe it as
ambulance chasing."
The use of agency staff should be banned and taken in house, it is the main cause of discontent with regular staff and costs a huge proportion of its budget, hospitals and its equipment should be better managed and its services spread evenly over seven days a week, hospital procurement should be for best value, doctors should feel free to make diagnosis without the fear of
ambulance chasing lawyers looking over their shoulders which results in them covering their backs and funnelling people to A&E, stop over prescribing drugs, I don't believe half the population are depressed or mental.
Republic Act 10706 aims to prohibit
ambulance chasing or the act of soliciting from seafarers the pursuit of any claim against their employers for the purpose of recovery of monetary benefit, arising from accident, illness or death, in exchange of an amount or fee which shall be deducted from the monetary claim or benefit awarded to the seafarer or their families.
Mostyn compares it to oft-criticized client recruitment by plaintiffs' lawyers (
ambulance chasing, in other words).
Is it simply a matter of financial companies
ambulance chasing, or should I, as a 77 year-old with a widespread family, start worrying about their health?
The "
ambulance chasing" lawyers hope that the Christmas holidays will mean the council will fail to answer the claim within the 24 hour deadline and they will win by default, it is believed.
Peel's brother said he was 'disgusted' by these '
ambulance chasing' books.
I suppose it is the equivalent of
ambulance chasing in the United States.