Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 13 | Accident Hunting a Profession

I Accident Hunting a Profession. lous accident. Little time Is lost lo the filing ot the suit for blj damages, and . In many cases the plaintiff .ccover3, as jurors always favor one who has been injured against a largo corporation, especially es-pecially If the plaintiff is a woman. ATELY there has been formed the Alliance Agolnst Accident Fraud, organized for the peculiar purpose of detecting frauds In damage Bults against big corporations. For there is a profession profes-sion of falling off trolley cars, falling from on elevator, eirlkiug one's self ngalnst a bolt, of cloth in o large department de-partment 6tore ii uJ many other kinds of accidents. And it U tbls professlou that tbe Alliance seekstto break up. In the past few years large corporations corpora-tions havo found theratclves tbe victims of many swindlers, who have alleged serious injuries nt the fault of the corporations, cor-porations, and hcrva sued for large sums In damages. In many cases the plaintiffs have received substantial sums for their lojurlcs, Komc of which amounted to nothing nnd were merely a pretext for tbo damago proceeding. Tho professionals, profession-als, who receive the Injuries, often net with physicians and attorneys, the former for-mer testifying to tbe extent of tho harts and the latter taking cbargo of the damage dam-age suit for CO per cent, of the expected verdict. Tho now Alliance keeps track of oil tho damage suits in which Us members are defendants, and, In cose tbe plaintiff In the action has ever sued anybody before, be-fore, the defenso has a good case. Ono of the fake schemes of tbe professional Is to turu out the light in on elevator or street cor, ond then feign some ser-