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Mutual Referrals Between Law Firm and Medical Clinics Lead to Lawsuit

By Eric Lipman

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The other week, I posted about how doctors were seeking to benefit from a court ruling in favor of the American Bar Association that certain Federal Trade Commission rules did not apply to attorneys. I tongue-in-cheeked it as evidence that our friends the sawboneses (yes, that's acceptable as the plural) really needed us, and we lawyers should no longer feel like second-class citizens of Learned Professionville. Today we have a story about some doctors and lawyers who have apparently been engaged in one of those symbiotic relationships you thought only existed on the Discovery Channel. The Indiana Law Blog linked to a story about a law firm in Kentucky that has a pretty cozy deal with some doctors. The law firm, Winters & Yonker, has a habit of directing its personal injury plaintiff clients to a particular chain of medical clinics owned by Gary Kompothecras, a chiropractor who also runs 1-800-ASK-GARY, a "medical and lawyer referral service" operating in Florida. One client steered to a Kompothecras clinic for treatment is now suing the law firm and the clinic. Because she was "deceived" by Winters & Yonker, Sharon Langford's $200,000 settlement turned into roughly $62,000 after the law firm took its...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 01, 2010 (boomark / email).