Personal Injury Law

Propaganda by Insurance Companies in the fight against No Fault Insurance

By Brian F. LaBovick, Esq.

Propaganda!  There must be great success in using propaganda.  The injustice of the world is fed to us through biased news and the use of propaganda.  Walter Cronkite was trustworthy, but now news reporters have their mouths are filled with biased junk.  Objective facts no longer exist.  I grow numb to the existence of biased information and stop taking the news seriously.  I don't even trust Hurricane reports any longer.  I believe they are meant to keep me tuned in worried about the weather and listening to more commercials (most of which are my competitor attorneys).

No Fault Insurance Company  (PIP) "Ex-parte" Communication reprehensible

I understand that we each see one side of 'the truth' better than the other.  The justice system is filled with parties fighting for their 'truth' to be heard.   But the court and the judges must stay insulated from all the 'propaganda.'  The Justice System Works!  But to remain fair we cannot allow insurance companies or large corporations to propagandize our judges.  Communicating about a case outside the courtroom, or attempting to alter the view of a judge outside the courtroom is impermissible.  This type of communication is called an 'ex-parte communication' and every first year lawyer knows it is wrong.
 
The Insurance industry does not believe these or any rules apply to them.  There are laws which say pay medical bills at a certain rate.  The PIP Insurance carriers refuse to do so and then complain when they are sued.  They cry out in a public propaganda campaign that trial lawyers are ruining their right to exist.  But they refuse to follow the rules.

United Automobile Insurance Company uses shameless propaganda on a judge
Attached is a letter from Judge Lee.  The letter shows United Automobile Insurance Company tried to prejudice the Broward County Judges behind the backs of several prominent Broward County lawyers.  I don't know if Broward was the only county to get the information.  What United Insurance Company did was shameless!  It is propaganda and manipulation upon a Judge.  
 
 

NO Fault (PIP) Insurance Companies lobby falsely lobby Congress for protection
Right now Insurance companies are lobbying for additional protection in the form of new laws.  They have paid lobbyists huge sums to wine and dine the legislature so they can pass laws to help PIP Insurance Companies.  Why?  Because the PIP Companies say they need additional protection to 'fight fraud.'  If that is true then why are they spending their time breaking the rules and trying to prejudice the judges?  Who is defrauding whom?  Are the Judges part of the fraud?  What are they trying to accomplish?  Shouldn't they be helping to find a solution to a 'fraud' problem. 

Propaganda puts Legitimate Insurance Claims by Doctors and Hospitals under attack
Consider this:  what if the 'fraud' problem is only one tenth as bad as the Insurance companies claim?  What if the legislator's figure out that fighting fraud is only a red herring and that what the PIP Insurance Companies really want to do is make getting full payment on legitimate claims impossible?  Who would that hurt?  The hospital, yes.  The doctor, yes.  The Insured (that is you, btw), yes!  The PIP Insurance Company, NO.
 
Propaganda!  Are we so use to it that we just don't care?  Maybe on a personal level.  But we must protect the Justice System and call out a wrong when we see it.

Full post as published by LaBovick Injury Law Blog on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).