Former state Superior Court judge Michael Joyce, of Erie, “was sentenced this afternoon to nearly four years in prison.” Joyce’s bogus claims of neck and back pain after a rear-ending had netted him $440,000 in settlements; “the judge filed his claims on judicial letterhead, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Christian] Trabold said, and referred to himself as a judge 115 times in the letters.”
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If a judge is willing to feign his neck injuries to drain insurance companies of money, think about the gusto with which the rest of the population must approach this ever-popular sport. The slightest accident can be alchemized into a “bulging disc” or “herniated disc” lawsuit, even when the bulging discs were already there. It’s probably the biggest source of fraud and quasi-fraud going in the personal injury lawsuit world.