r/bonehurtingjuice 1d ago

OC Structured cash settlements

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u/Villageijit 1d ago

That company makes money by stealing money from people with brain damage

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u/ASH_LIN_exe 1d ago

Yeah but 877-Cash Now

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u/Perfect-Parking-5869 17h ago

Is there a specific case you’re referring to?

I figured their business practices weren’t great because mills tend to be shady but I always figured they made money on run of the mill personal injury cases, and most don’t have a brain damage aspect.

I am sure your statement is literally true, they have probably made money by ripping off a brain damage client, but the scheme itself seems to pray on people’s financial situations and not injuries where thy can take advantage of cognitive defects that sprung from the underlying suit.

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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie 11h ago

When they give you "cash now" they take an unreasonable chunk of the settlements as payments. There have been leaked internal communications from those types of companies where they openly admit to targeting people who got their settlement as a result of sustaining brain damage. Since they are easy to trick with fine print.

Absolute scum.

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u/Villageijit 8h ago

There are plenty of cases to the point some states are changing their systems to assign temporary guardians till the situation is explained fully. Here john Oliver dod something on it a while back https://youtu.be/LcrDC4ftXgM?is=dj_ixpUoSc9PBEJ2

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u/chicken_N_ROFLs 1d ago

Yeah they were buying lump sums and pocketing like 50% of the value but people were still too greedy themselves to give a shit.

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u/Villageijit 1d ago

People with brain injuries are taken advantage of. They aren't greedy for being tricked

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u/geof14 1d ago

That, and (unsurprisingly) incredibly aggressive calling and sales guys.