{"id":1787,"date":"2024-07-05T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wkjustice.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:50:51","slug":"why-am-getting-sketchy-calls-after-my-nashville-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkjustice.com\/es\/blog\/why-am-getting-sketchy-calls-after-my-nashville-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting sketchy phone calls after my Nashville Car Accident?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Why am I getting sketchy phone calls after my Nashville Car Accident?<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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If you\u2019ve been in a Nashville car accident and less than 24 hours later you start getting phone calls from someone trying to send you to a doctor, hang up!\u00a0 Everyday Nashville car accident victims are being lied to and funneled into bad medical treatment.\u00a0 These marketing companies often work for an out-of-state chiropractor who solicits accident victims sometimes just hours after a motor vehicle accident.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Of course if you have any questions, you can reach out to one of our experienced Nashville car accident lawyers <\/a>here at Weir & Kestner.<\/p>

Before we take a deep dive, let\u2019s quickly get the legal stuff out of the way.\u00a0 In Tennessee, health care providers are forbidden from soliciting accident victims unless they have a relationship with the victim or the solicitation is done more than 30 days after an accident (\u00a7 T.C.A 63-1-129<\/a>).\u00a0 Tennessee lawyers have a similar rule.\u00a0 Tennessee\u2019s Rules of Professional Conduct state \u201ca lawyer shall not elicit employment from any person if a significant motive for the solicitation is the lawyer’s pecuniary gain and the communication concerns an action for personal injury . . . unless the accident . . . occurred more than thirty (30) days prior to the mailing or transmission of the communication or the lawyer has a family, close personal, or prior professional relationship with the person solicited (see the full rule<\/a>).\u201d\u00a0 Now that we know how unethical and illegal it is that marketers call car accident victims so soon after a car accident, let\u2019s talk about how these companies work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

There are many ways car accident marketing companies try to get around the rules.\u00a0 Here\u2019s one scenario.\u00a0 An out-of-state chiropractor, who isn\u2019t a licensed chiropractor, gets their marketing company to solicit a Nashville car accident victim.\u00a0 They claim they\u2019re from the insurance company.\u00a0 The injured person believes them and is sent to a clinic.\u00a0 At the clinic, they\u2019re seen by a nurse practitioner or a physician\u2019s assistant, who then refers them to a chiropractor for treatment.\u00a0 The chiropractors get paid by either billing the patient’s own auto insurance company under the Medical Payments portion of their policy, or by referring that patient to a lawyer the clinic works closely with to collect against the liability insurance carrier.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Accident solicitation has been going on for a long time in Tennessee.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a news story<\/a> from 2009 if you\u2019re interested in taking a deeper dive.\u00a0 The bottom line is injury victims are the ones who get hurt from these illegal practices.\u00a0 This network of unethical individuals only want money and don\u2019t have the injured patient\u2019s best interest in mind.\u00a0 In fact, when an auto insurance company sees that a car accident victim has received treatment at a clinic they believe is committing fraud, they will use that victim\u2019s case to gather evidence against the clinic rather than to adequately compensate the injury victim.\u00a0<\/p>

Car accident solicitation has been a problem for many years.\u00a0 Solicitation companies continue to find ways around the rules and now seem to obtain accident information even faster than before.\u00a0 How do these companies get accident information so quickly when accident reports take days to be completed?\u00a0 Is Davidson County allowing or selling early access to the accident information?\u00a0 There are many unanswered questions about these business practices.\u00a0 But, the bottom line is if you\u2019re involved in a Nashville car wreck don\u2019t fall for this telemarketing scam.\u00a0 Make sure your treatment is strong and meets the legal standards necessary to win your Tennessee car accident case.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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by<\/span> Joe Weir<\/a><\/strong><\/div>
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