Free x-ray to diagnose mesothelioma

Received a letter today (addressed to "resident") from what appears to be a law firm offering to do free x-rays to high-risk individuals (i.e. industrial workers exposed to risk factors). If it's a legit law office, why do they have to go out fishing for cases?

Because they make boatloads of money off of these cases. They want the case before other lawyers get it. That X-ray is probably a lot cheaper lead generation than the tv ads I see.

As Michael Z said, BOATLOADS of money to be made off the cases. When you see an article about a "settlement" of a big class-action suit you can bet your boopie that most of that money got soaked up by the law firms before the claimants ever saw a penny of it. And "pennies" is what they'll see....

Here's the letter:

In Texas, it is against the law for an attorney or their staff to contact you directly after an auto accident and solicit their services without your prior request. I feel that it should also beagainst the law for an attorney to solicit business in examples such as this.

The disastrous Los Angeles area fires were in January, including a small fire about 3 miles from my house. The winds weren't whipping at that time so it was quickly extinguished by air and ground firefighting teams. The next closest fire was at least 20 miles away and I don't live downwind from it.

Even so, I've probably received 50 letters from attorneys asking me to join a class action lawsuit for smoke damage. (The probable target for the lawsuit? LAFD and the City of Los Angeles, i.e., the taxpayers. Including me.)

Note: I had NO smoke damage from the fire, nor did my neighbors, and the fires was out 30 - 45 minutes or so. What would even be the grounds for this lawsuit? And isn't that why we all carry insurance?

So many opportunistic sharks swim in this country's waters...

I was enrolled in a class action lawsuit against Facebook and never opted out. The lawyers got millions. I got $4.78

MoBeans said:

I was enrolled in a class action lawsuit against Facebook and never opted out. The lawyers got millions. I got $4.78

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Exactly.