Errors by the attorney handling your money can cost you big bucks. But we know that. Here is a check list of errors committed by PI attorneys to watch out for:

1. Initial phone contact to atty discourages your patient. Poor telephone protocols hurt everyone.
2. Unreal Expectations. The victim did not hit the Lotto.
3. Don't return telephone calls. Number one offense
4. Invest too little energy toward settling.
5. Attempt to force the DC to bear the biggest reductions. Unforgivable.
6. Invest too little time to work-up the case.
7. Assume the treating doc is the same as the evaluator doc.
8. Settling too soon ruins the permanent impairment claim.
9. Does not understand Colossus.
10. Never been to a chiropractor---and he is a PI attorney?

Each of these errors has simple answer. For a copy of the answers---email johntawlian@shawnsteel.com

Musical artist and server Erica Landsberg, stopped to fix her tire chain. Erica was facing the street with her back to a driveway as she attempted to fix the chain. Defendant driving a Lexus SUV backed into Erica, crushing her on top of her bike and under the SUV and dragging her two feet across the street.

Erica suffered knee, ankle, neck, spine, emotional distress and PTSD. Dr. Richard Gonsolus DC, Bellflower put this case together and worked with 2 ortho surgeons, plus an accident recon PhD.

The defendants were not too kind and accused Erica of lying and taunted her with acting like a 'baby'. They offered no help. The Jury found for Erica, but penalized her with causing 10% of the accident. Still the award was a net of $173,515.

Landsberg v. Mitchel BC 469 262, LA Superior Court, Judge Michael Johnson 1/9/2013

Researchers at Johns Hopkins claim that despite efforts to improve surgical safety, 40,044 "never events" occur in the US each year. A "never event" should never happen in modern medicine, like operating on the wrong patient, yet the researchers state this is a growing problem.

Examples of Avoidable Mistakes :

		Foreign object left behind 49.8 %
		Wrong procedure 25.1 %
		Wrong site 24.8 %
		Wrong patient 0.3%

Published the journal Surgery, using data from National Practitioner Data Bank, and a federal medical malpractice judgments repository.