• Here’s what happened: Houston personal injury attorney David Lee Pettus, previously exposed for allegedly stealing settlement checks from car crash clients, faces new accusations from additional victims.
• Catch-up quick: KPRC 2 reported back in January at least five separate victims who allege that Pettus settled their insurance claims without their knowledge and pocketed the victims’ settlements, going so far as to forge their signatures on paperwork and insurance checks. Now the victims—facing financial and medical distress from the missing payouts—are seeking accountability, and calling for Pettus to face legal consequences and be disbarred. Learn more
• What now? Process servers attempting to deliver lawsuits claim Pettus has avoided service. He is still a licensed attorney in the state of Texas.
• TLR Thoughts: This isn’t the first—or, unfortunately, the last—attorney to be caught up in an unethical personal injury lawsuit scheme in Texas. Texans deserve to have confidence that their lawyers are acting in their clients’ best interests and within the law—and that those who don’t will be held accountable by the appropriate authorities.

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