Eight years after New Jersey enacted a statute barring lawyers from using paid runners to drum up business, a personal injury lawyer has become the first to plead guilty to the charge. Irwin Seligsohn and his former firm, Seligsohn, Goldberger & Shinrod, pleaded guilty to paying $70,000 to runners between 1998 and 2003 to solicit people to claim injuries from staged or non-existent accidents. The charges were the result of an undercover operation by the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
August 09, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Eight years after New Jersey enacted a statute barring lawyers from using paid runners to drum up business, a West Orange, N.J., personal injury lawyer has become the first to plead guilty to the charge.
Irwin Seligsohn and his former firm, Seligsohn, Goldberger & Shinrod, pleaded guilty on Aug. 3 to paying $70,000 to runners between 1998 and 2003 to solicit people to claim injuries from staged or non-existent accidents.
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