Comments on: Cruise ship impostors: “They’re called ‘jump-ons'” https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/cruise-ship-impostors-theyre-called-jump-ons/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Bratt https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/cruise-ship-impostors-theyre-called-jump-ons/comment-page-1/#comment-141235 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:33:54 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27159#comment-141235 First- Kudos, Walter for posting this story about an ethical plaintiff’s lawyer busting these faudsters. I doubt it will get the same amount of attention that it would have if he had done the opposite, but it is always nice to see the 99% of us that try our best to do the right thing get some attention.

Second- I wish the article had explained what a jump-on is. It refers to people claiming to have been injured in bus accidents, who were never actually on the bus. Generally there would be passers-by or friends or relatives of real passengers who would claim to have been injured in the accident without having been there. Early in my career I worked in a firm that handled these cases, and I learned very quickly that if the name wasn’t on the police report, it was a scam. Many busses have cameras on them now, and more than one lawyer I know has been burned by a scammer who claimed to have been injured and then wasn’t on the video.

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