Two Texas law firms that filed hundreds of Hurricane Sandy property damage claims have been accused in a New Jersey class action suit of paying runners to solicit clients and then charging those clients improper fees.
The suit, filed in Ocean County Superior Court on Dec. 21, 2015, alleges The Voss Law Firm and The Posey Law Firm improperly charged clients $250, which, according to the suit, either represents an improper runner fee for each Sandy-related insurance claim that the runners referred to the firms or an improper charging of ordinary law firm overhead expenses. Use of runners by attorneys was outlawed in New Jersey in 1999 and ordinary law office overhead cannot be billed to a client under New Jersey court rules. Clients were also allegedly charged duplicative expert fees by companies that erroneously claimed they each personally inspected the damaged properties, the suit claims.
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