I'm reminded of a family in my former hometown of 25,000. Their names are constantly coming up in the hometown newspaper listings of lawsuits being filed. Some people make a living by filing lawsuits and most likely settling out of court. It would be interesting to see just how many times these 2 have filed lawsuits previously.
I was thinking the same thing. Back some years ago I was involved in an accident (my car was hit in the driver's side door, where I was sitting) and my PASSENGER claimed he was hurt, and was taken to a hospital while I talked to the police.
Afterwards, I went to the hospital to see if my passenger was all right, and at that time he confided that he was faking an injury to get an insurance settlement from the other guy's insurance company.
Later on, this guy called me from his slimeball attorney's office to see if I wanted to get in on the "windfall" and I refused. He assured me that he and his lawyer had done this several times and it worked perfectly!
This guy was also black, BTW, although I don't think that has anything to do with the fact he was just a lowlife swindler.