Review of Whiplash

Law & Order: Whiplash (2001)
Season 11, Episode 19
7/10
Crash Dummies
18 September 2020
Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin get a case involving a dead man with no injuries that would lead one to conclude homicide. But as the investigation grows deeper this man suffered a whiplash injuries from a staged automobile accident.

Sam Waterston describes this as a 'cottage industry'. And the captains of this industry are lawyer partners Matthew J. Burg and Christopher Patrick Mullen. They filed personal injury lawsuits for almost 300 claims for these whiplash type lawsuits because they're not easy to prove or disprove. They hire mostly illegal alien day laborers for a couple hundred dollars and send them all to the firm's personal for hire chiropractor. The lion's share of the settlements go to them.

Law And Order occasionally has some unscrupulous lawyers portrayed and Burg and Mullen are two of the worst. The miracle is no one caught on before this.

As for the victim and in this case the surviving family.they get a pittance for essentially being live crash dummies.

A real bottom feeding racket.
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