.... years after being rear-ended in a car accident, Liese
Bruff-McArthur saw a small army of medical professionals. Most agreed
the crash had left her with chronic pain, depression, PTSD and other
troubles, making a return to work untenable.
Then she met Dr. Monte Bail.
Hired by the insurance company she was suing, the psychiatrist spent
an hour and a quarter with the Ottawa-area woman — the kind of work that
earned Bail as much as $77,000 a month — and concluded Bruff-McArthur
was essentially faking it..........
And such cases are likely just the tip of the iceberg, say lawyers
representing accident victims, the plaintiffs. Judicial criticisms arise
only in the five per cent or so of cases that get to trial, they note,
so most instances of bias stay under wraps as lawsuits are settled out
of court.
“It’s clear from the (reported) cases that it is far too prevalent,”
says Adam Wagman, a plaintiff lawyer and president of the Ontario Trial
Lawyers Association. “That attacks the very foundation of our system of
justice.”.....
Source/more:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/hired-gun-in-a-lab-coat-how-medical-experts-help-car-insurers-fight-accident-claims
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