Legal Question in Personal Injury in Texas

This is legitimate. If the attorney gave the money to you and you did not pay the medical expenses, then the providers could come after the attorney.

In many cases, a clinic will not provide health care services to an uninsured patient unless the patient's lawyer promises to pay the clinic's bills out of the settlement. The clinic may ask the lawyer for a letter promising to pay (this is called a letter of protection.) In other cases, the clinics have the patients sign an assignment of benefits (AOB) in which the clinic has a lien on the case. In either event, the lawyer has to pay the bills from the settlement. If the lawyer gave all the money to your daughter, and she chose not to pay, the providers could come after the lawyer (in the first scenario) or the lawyer and insurance company (in the second scenario.) This would make it impossible to settle cases.

If you are suspicious, your daughter can always request copies of the bills herself and compare them to the settlement worksheet that her lawyer provided.

I agree with the other attorneys who posted comments.

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