Treating providers — physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, hospital social workers — often see the patient before any attorney does. If you treat a patient whose injury is the result of someone else’s negligence, we want to be a resource. No fees flow from us to you, ever. Just a calm, attorney-led conversation about whether your patient has a case.
Founding & Managing Attorney · Amparo Law Firm
You don’t have to refer to us to do right by your patient. The most useful things you can do — in any case where there’s a potential legal claim:
Document specifics. Mechanism of injury, contemporaneous statements from the patient about how the injury happened, time and location.
Don’t release records to insurance companies without authorization specifically signed by the patient and dated.
Tell the patient about the 90-day Notice-of-Claim deadline if a city entity is involved. Most lay people never hear about this rule until it’s too late.
Refer to a lawyer if the patient asks — even if it’s not us. We are not the only firm in New York; we are simply available.
No fees flow between us and treating providers. We do not pay referral fees, we do not provide kickbacks, we do not enter “preferred-provider” arrangements that compensate providers for sending patients. We don’t ask providers to choose us over other firms.
This is a regulatory floor — federal Anti-Kickback Statute, state-level inducement rules, and NY RPC 7.2 (no consideration for recommending a lawyer’s services). We mention it explicitly because some plaintiff’s firms in New York operate in gray areas; we don’t.
We’re a small, federal-court-trained firm where Bob personally reviews every matter. We’re built for cases requiring meticulous medical documentation — Labor Law §240 cases, severe burns, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord, wrongful death. We pay our liens fast and accurately, and we don’t second-guess the providers who treated.
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