What is an Ambulance Chaser?
Attorneys who specialize in personal injury cases are prohibited by a code of ethics from actively soliciting potential clients immediately after an accident or injury has occurred. An unscrupulous legal professional who does approach injured parties or their family members at the hospital could rightfully be called an ambulance chaser. A lawyer described as an ambulance chaser might literally follow an ambulance to a hospital, or use other unethical means to identify potential clients. A few attorneys may actually embrace the title, but the vast majority of legal professionals see the term “ambulance chaser” as pejorative and insulting. Personal injury attorneys earn a significant amount of their income from financial judgements awarded to their clients. This practice is not unethical in and of itself, since many personal injury attorneys do not charge their clients for the prep work preceding a trial. This is why most personal injury attorneys are very selective about the cases they
