tubs said:I remember a story my chiropractor told me a couple of months ago. He was treating a patient a few years ago and all of a sudden the patient screamed out in pain. A few weeks later it turned out that the patient was sueing him for causing him a major back problem which meant he was in pain and couldnt walk properly. (I can't remember what the problem was now) but he had been to other specialists who said that he did have this problem.
Now the funny thing was that the chiropractor was driving down to Gippsland in Vic one day and pulled over at one of the beaches for a break. And who's car did he see there? The patient's. And what was this poor crippled guy doing? He was playing on the beach with his daughter. Anyway, the chiro took a whole roll of film of the guy. When it went to court it was looking bad for the chiro, until his barrister went up to the judge and showed him the photos. The judge called the other barrister over and said "It looks like this guys having us on". The other barrister went over and told his client who walked straight out, no limp, no pain.
So, you see how the chiropractor was going to have everything taken from him and he didnt even do ANYTHING wrong. He didnt even mistreat the patient.
Beachbum, I know that you think that as long as you act honestly then you dont have anything to worry about. I think you have to act honestly and ethically in your dealings with people, and have faith that people will do the same to you. But dont trust them. This kind of thing can happen to anyone. For example, if you hit someone in your car, its fair enough if you pay for their damage and medical expenses, but what happens if the person you hit only had a headache for a couple of days, but then comes back at you asking for a million dollars because you screwed their back up and they cant walk? See above, its easy to do. You only need to protect yourself against the dishonest ones.
Tubs
Seems to me that anyone in that situation would be well served by arranging for a private investigator of some discription to do some surveillance then.