(Photo: Shutterstock.com)Medical Providers Claim PI Firm Failed to Pay for Client Treatment
The providers seek up to $1 million in damages in a breach of contract suit against Houston's Cox Pradia Law Firm.
March 31, 2019 at 07:48 PM
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Two medical providers in Houston are seeking up to $1 million from The Cox Pradia Law Firm, a personal injury firm in Houston that markets itself as BigCityAccidents.com, alleging it failed to pay them for providing medical and chiropractic care to clients of the firm.
The plaintiffs, 1st Choice Accident & Injury and ProHealth Medical Group Management, leveled claims including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, conversion and unjust enrichment, and they are seeking attorney's fees.
1st Choice alleges in a petition filed Friday in state district court in Houston that Cox Pradia owes it $732,410 for services it provided to firm clients from July 2012 through August 2018, and ProHealth Medical seeks $3,750 for services provided in October 2017.
Troy Pradia, managing partner of Cox Pradia, could not immediately be reached for comment on the allegations.
The plaintiffs allege in 1st Choice Accident & Injury v. The Cox Pradia Law Firm that Cox Pradia sought medical treatment from them for clients with personal injury claims or causes of action. They allege the firm provided them with “letters of protection,” in which an attorney promises to pay the medical provider after the lawyer settles the litigation and has the settlement funds.
They assert that, because of the letters of protection, they agreed to treat the firm's clients without making immediate demands for payment. However, the suit alleges that Cox Pradia distributed proceeds of settlements to itself and clients without ever paying the plaintiffs.
“Plaintiffs have made numerous and repeated inquiries into the status of defendant's clients' cases by both letter and telephone but have not been able to resolve any of the 197 letters of protection,” the medical providers claim in the petition.
Plaintiffs attorney Jared Johnson, an attorney at Sullins Johnston Rohrbach & Magers of Houston, could not immediately be reached for comment.
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