by aeronaut777 June 17, 2013
Get the Red ambulance mug.1. A lawyer specialising in personal injury claims usually representing people against local authorities or large companies.
2. Derogative description for a personal injury lawyer who specifically seeks out clients for tripping and slipping cases against big companies. Certainly in the US, this is because the lawyer's fee will be a percentage of the client's damages award - therefore making it profitable to find injured former employees of big companies.
2. Derogative description for a personal injury lawyer who specifically seeks out clients for tripping and slipping cases against big companies. Certainly in the US, this is because the lawyer's fee will be a percentage of the client's damages award - therefore making it profitable to find injured former employees of big companies.
1. Q: What sort of practice is it?
A: Oh, he's an ambulance chaser.
2. A: "That guy who got his arm
mangled up in our machine is suing"
B: "Who's he got?"
A: "Some ambulance chaser."
A: Oh, he's an ambulance chaser.
2. A: "That guy who got his arm
mangled up in our machine is suing"
B: "Who's he got?"
A: "Some ambulance chaser."
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Ambulance Chaser
An Ambulance Chaser is a term for an unethical lawyer, especially those who represent plaintiffs in personal injury actions.
Origin
The term is derived from lawyers who follow ambulances to hospitals after a person is injured, usually determined through the lawyer's use of a personal police/fire radio scanner, in order to attempt to drum up business by convincing a victim that he or she needs to sue, or by simply being the first lawyer in contact with the victim, generally when the victim is most prone to suggestion and easily talked into suing.
In most jurisdictions, lawyers can be disbarred if caught engaging in such unethical behavior. Bar associations regularly dispatch investigators to large-scale disaster scenes to look out for unethical lawyers or their non-lawyer agents (known as "cappers" or "runners").
An Ambulance Chaser is a term for an unethical lawyer, especially those who represent plaintiffs in personal injury actions.
Origin
The term is derived from lawyers who follow ambulances to hospitals after a person is injured, usually determined through the lawyer's use of a personal police/fire radio scanner, in order to attempt to drum up business by convincing a victim that he or she needs to sue, or by simply being the first lawyer in contact with the victim, generally when the victim is most prone to suggestion and easily talked into suing.
In most jurisdictions, lawyers can be disbarred if caught engaging in such unethical behavior. Bar associations regularly dispatch investigators to large-scale disaster scenes to look out for unethical lawyers or their non-lawyer agents (known as "cappers" or "runners").
Good Example of Ambulance Chaser:
A lawyer who comes to a classroom and asks the students who were bullied to sue the bully for intentional infliction of emotional distress, so he in turn can receive a large contingency fee.
A lawyer who comes to a classroom and asks the students who were bullied to sue the bully for intentional infliction of emotional distress, so he in turn can receive a large contingency fee.
by Alex Pachiano October 28, 2006
Get the ambulance chaser mug.The irrational fear of the walking dead. ("ambulo" from the Latin "to walk" and “thanato” from the Greek for death/dead).
by F_D April 9, 2009
Get the ambulothanatophobia mug.A mental disease infecting lawyers, attorneys and others in the legal profession. Symptoms to be on the watch for include:
1) Hurrying to disaster sites to offer legal assistance, and:
2) Advertising heavily on television commercials, often using self-degrading nicknames such as "The Strong Arm".
1) Hurrying to disaster sites to offer legal assistance, and:
2) Advertising heavily on television commercials, often using self-degrading nicknames such as "The Strong Arm".
by Piranha August 29, 2006
Get the Ambulance Chaser mug.A hybrid between an ambulance and fire truck (pumper). The Ambulumper, thought to be cost-saving by combining two pieces of expensive equipment and reducing manpower, is really nothing more than an embarrassment and denial by the fire service that EMS is swiftly taking over.
See also; Pumpulance.
See also; Pumpulance.
Dude! There was a rocking trash can fire around the corner from the fire house. We would have been fighting the beast if we hadn't been taking some shitbum to the hospital in the Ambulumper.
by Res2cuE November 29, 2010
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