Comair Crash Lawyers Violate Kentucky Law.
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Comair Crash Lawyers Violate Kentucky Law.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
U.S. Attorney warns against lawyer solicitation
By Tom Loftus
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The U.S. Attorney in Lexington said Thursday that any families of victims of Comair Flight 5191 should report to federal authorities any unsolicited communications from lawyers seeking to represent them in a damage suits.
“We are extremely saddened by the tragedy of Comair Flight 5191 and the loss of life involved,” U.S. Attorney Amul R. Thapar said in a news release. “We are also concerned that victims’ families may be subjected in this time of grief to unsolicited, and thus improper, communications concerning the accident by attorneys and law firms seeking to obtain clients for subsequent litigation.”
Thapar said federal law prohibits any lawyer from making an unsolicited communication with family members who lose a loved one in an accident within 45 days of the accident. A violation is punishable by a $1,000 fine.
Thapar said family members who have received unsolicited communications should report it to the National Transportation Safety Board at (202) 314-6185.
On Wednesday a commission of the Kentucky Bar Association ruled that three advertisements by law firms in the Lexington Herald-Leader that day seeking to represent families of victims of the crash violated the bar’s rules on legal advertising.
One firm voluntarily pulled its ad from Thursday’s editions before the bar ruling.
A second canceled its ad after learning of the bar’s ruling.
And the newspaper canceled the third ad because the firm had said it wanted to comply with rules of the local bar when it bought the ad.
Monday, January 29, 2007
U.S. Attorney warns against lawyer solicitation
By Tom Loftus
[email protected]
The Courier-Journal
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The U.S. Attorney in Lexington said Thursday that any families of victims of Comair Flight 5191 should report to federal authorities any unsolicited communications from lawyers seeking to represent them in a damage suits.
“We are extremely saddened by the tragedy of Comair Flight 5191 and the loss of life involved,” U.S. Attorney Amul R. Thapar said in a news release. “We are also concerned that victims’ families may be subjected in this time of grief to unsolicited, and thus improper, communications concerning the accident by attorneys and law firms seeking to obtain clients for subsequent litigation.”
Thapar said federal law prohibits any lawyer from making an unsolicited communication with family members who lose a loved one in an accident within 45 days of the accident. A violation is punishable by a $1,000 fine.
Thapar said family members who have received unsolicited communications should report it to the National Transportation Safety Board at (202) 314-6185.
On Wednesday a commission of the Kentucky Bar Association ruled that three advertisements by law firms in the Lexington Herald-Leader that day seeking to represent families of victims of the crash violated the bar’s rules on legal advertising.
One firm voluntarily pulled its ad from Thursday’s editions before the bar ruling.
A second canceled its ad after learning of the bar’s ruling.
And the newspaper canceled the third ad because the firm had said it wanted to comply with rules of the local bar when it bought the ad.
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