{"id":9886,"date":"2012-08-16T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2012-08-16T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:28:21","slug":"what-can-you-do-when-your-lawyer-ignores-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=9886","title":{"rendered":"What can you do when your lawyer ignores Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can laugh, that&#8217;s what you can do.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier I told you how I wrote to Dinkes &amp; Schwitzer yesterday, with an offer they really shouldn&#8217;t refuse: send me my settlement check or else.<\/p>\n<p>I just picked up my mail. Copies of two letters from Medicare, both addressed to Dinkes &amp; Schwitzer and both repeating something I told D&amp;S more than half a year ago: Medicare, whom D&amp;S must reimburse for my medical bills concerning my broken foot, doesn&#8217;t have proper Proof of Representation. That is, Medicare has no proof that D&amp;S represented me in this lawsuit, i.e., they don&#8217;t have D&amp;S&#8217;s signature or date of signing.<\/p>\n<p>I warned D&amp;S of this. And someone at D&amp;S pooh-poohed me. But I think they have a real problem, because the Retainer Agreement I signed does not in fact have a corresponding D&amp;S signature and date.<\/p>\n<p>So what are they going to do now?<\/p>\n<p>Gotta say: never in my wildest imagination did I think a law firm could be so &#8230; I don&#8217;t even know what to call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can laugh, that&#8217;s what you can do. 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