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ARTICLE · 22 AUGUST 2023

Personal injury claim farming

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What is claim farming? How can it increase an injured person's legal fees? Is it legal? Who is doing it? How to avoid it.

AustraliaLitigation, Mediation & Arbitration
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Some personal injury law firms are looking to "buy" your data online through a practice called "claim farming". It's time for the practice to be shut down across Australia. Law firms are "buying" personal injury claims from unidentified 3rd parties on the internet. Injured people pay the price in more ways than one.

When an injured person first engages Polaris to investigate their options regarding a personal injury claim (for example, WorkCover, medical negligence or TAC compensation), we ask them about how they came to choose our firm. Often, people will tell us about the research they did before making their choice.

But what if your personal injury law firm was choosing you without you ever contacting them?

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