{"id":707,"date":"2024-05-14T03:19:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/it-is-not-zealous-advocacy-it-is-fraud-pi-firm-sued-for-racketeering-in-asbestos-cases\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:13:15","slug":"it-is-not-zealous-advocacy-it-is-fraud-pi-firm-sued-for-racketeering-in-asbestos-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/it-is-not-zealous-advocacy-it-is-fraud-pi-firm-sued-for-racketeering-in-asbestos-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It Is Not Zealous Advocacy. It Is Fraud&#8217;: PI Firm Sued for Racketeering in Asbestos Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal injury firm Simmons Hanly Conroy is being accused of crossing the line from zealous advocacy into fraud and civil conspiracy in a lawsuit filed May 10 in Illinois federal court that claims the firm\u2019s asbestos case strategy has encouraged perjury and obstructed discovery in an effort to secure large settlements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suit, filed by plastic pipe manufacturer J-M Manufacturing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, further accuses the<a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/\"> firm<\/a> and several of its attorneys of engaging in racketeering activities in its handling of asbestos-related claims, claiming Simmons Hanly \u201cfiled sham <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/bus-accident-lawyers.html\">lawsuits<\/a>, pursued baseless claims, and otherwise sought to extract money from J-M Manufacturing through a pattern of fraud, coercion, and the suppression of evidence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal injury firm Simmons Hanly Conroy is being accused of crossing the line from zealous advocacy into fraud and civil conspiracy in a lawsuit filed May 10 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1077,1079,1080,184,643,1078,412,1076],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-advocacy","tag-asbestos","tag-cases","tag-firm","tag-fraud","tag-racketeering","tag-sued","tag-zealous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}