FedEx says a New York personal injury firm helped orchestrate staged or exaggerated crashes, inflated medical treatment, and bogus injury claims.

Now the firm is firing back.

It told a federal judge that FedEx’s alleged RICO enterprise simply doesn’t exist and asked the court to dismiss the claims.

Here’s the bigger issue for PI lawyers:

When a defendant starts attacking the relationships between the law firm, medical providers, referrals, treatment, and damages as one coordinated “scheme,” the entire case pipeline can become part of the litigation.

-The PI Brief