Richard Copeland Alpers

Richard and Mona are horrible at communication. They will not let you know when something has been updated with your case. You will need to stay on them constantly to get things done, and to get updates on what is happening. I am kicking myself for not doing more research before choosing representati...on. Avoid at all costs!

Something is really wrong with my case!! We started a claim against big company, I was hurt at work permanently and we reached a very small settlement in the amount of 20,000 for 5 years of time. One day he called and sd hay the insurance company called and wants to settle for $20,000.00 and you will... receive 17,000.00 tax free and in one weeks time i was thinking wow this as a blessing and i said ok because he recommended this is a good deal even though i knew of others in the same company that were hurt the same way as I did and received 80,000 each, so we were thinking this is low because i have a permanently , but he said to hurry up and take the deal because they might take the offer back and if we went to court they just might not give me any money at all. so i agreed not really knowing how this attorney was because in the 5 years we never really talked with him but maybe 2 times at the beginning and on the phone. Now we make a app to sign the papers and then he was talking fast and stated all the money is $17,000 less $1840.00 and said this very quickly like there was this notice to us about $1840.00 less even though your said just a week ago that the money was suppose to be 1700,00 tax free where is this $1840.00 coming from? he looked stunned like he didn't even know what he was just taking about then he stated we had gotten advances from the insurance company and I had to remember getting this amount and from this insurance company name ? then i said no i never got any checks in the amount of 1840.00 4 years ago at christmas time. I would remember that because i was on workman's comp and we were broke so at christmas I would have remembered that! then he said it could take a few days to have the insurance company to check there files and come back with canceled checks. so we waited and sure enough the insurance company didn't have any canceled checks and he said that they would settle right (1840.00 less) the same deal as before or we would have to wait again for 4 months to see if they can check again to see if they can come up with canceled checks and if we wait the judge was for sure going to give us less and possible nothing at all. sounds crazy but when your there and someone is telling you $20,000 or wait no nothing at all. you start to think this isn't right but Id better go along with this because what if he's right. So i agreed after I didn't want to but he insisted again stating you might not get a penny! and I'm going to do something very special for you I'm going to go and tell the insurance company right now to split the difference (900)a 900.00 less I'm even going to through in a hundred dollars of my money.? so he came back and said ok i got them to settle for 16,160.00 . ok he told me 16,200.00 but it dosent matter its only 40.00 and he took a hundred out of his own settlement wow he's such a good guy, NOT at all because after we got the settlement papers that he was holding the whole time and never let me look at ????? we noticed the $1840,00 was stated as paying me $1840.00 worth of workman's comp benefits not insurance company advances like he was trying to rejog my memory for. so i called him and said wait one minute your the lawyer and u knew the whole time that the money in question was not from the insurance company and we settled for 900.00 less because we were waiting on the insurance company to come back with canceled checks in there name not workman's comp? he was stunned and retracted all his previous statements and so i said do you remember you said the whole time he was waiting for the insurance company to show us proof that the money came from there company? and he said well the workman's comp is not company ?? and that i didn't understand the whole deal and if i was unhappy with the settlement???? are you serious have you been listening to me at all?