“We’ll give you $2,900 and pay $12,000 of your medical bills if you settle today.”
This is the biggest scam they run.
Tennessee law says your health insurance pays your bills. Health insurance gets a huge discount with providers. A $15,000 ER bill might mean health insurance pays $1,500 and the rest is contractually adjusted. Our law is clear that the injured party is entitled to be paid the full $15,000. Even after you pay back health insurance, you’ve made $13,500 on the medical bills alone.
If you fall for this trick, you just lost out on one of the biggest benefits of our law in Tennessee.