A team of researchers led by Richard Gun, visiting research fellow at Adelaide University, “has found patients who engage a lawyer after receiving their injury are five times less likely ever to return to work. He says they also appear to suffer more pain and for longer periods than accident victims who do not have lawyers.” Even allowing for an expected correlation between the two variables — persons with more serious injuries are presumably more likely to retain lawyers — legal representation appears to have an independent effect in prolonging the process of recovery, Sun says. (Nick Grimm, ABC News Online (Australian), Feb. 23 (summary); “Accident victims who hire a lawyer take longer to recover: study”, The World Today, ABC News Online (Australian), Feb. 23)(interview transcript); Gun et al., “Risk Factors for Prolonged Disability After Whiplash Injury: A Prospective Study”, Spine, Feb. 15 (abstract and $ link to study). For similar findings from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine based on Saskatchewan data, see Apr. 24, 2000.
“Lawyers pose health risk: study”
A team of researchers led by Richard Gun, visiting research fellow at Adelaide University, “has found patients who engage a lawyer after receiving their injury are five times less likely ever to return to work. He says they also appear to suffer more pain and for longer periods than accident victims who do not have […]
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