Ambulance Chaser (1896)

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   "Ambulance chaser," like "shyster," is another epithet used at lawyers.  The HDAS, citing the DA, has July 1897...Like "shyster," "ambulance chaser" might also come from New York City...PUCK should have "ambulance chaser," but we don't have the 1890s years yet.  I e-mailed an APS ONLINE ProQuest guy, but got no response.
   If Fred Shapiro of Yale Law School finds "ambulance chaser" in 1496, I'll eat the beer can in "beer can chicken."


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Broad Ax - 9/12/1896
...the activity of the lawyers known as "AMBULANCE CHASERS" will be convinced of their.....miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from..
Salt Lake City, Utah   Saturday, September 12, 1896  687 k
Pg. 3?, col. 4:
      _"AMBULANCE CHASERS"_
_Pettifogging Lawyers Who Hunt Up_
   _Cases in Which They Can Get_
   _Jobs._
   Anybody who doubts the activity of the lawyers known as "ambulance chasers" will be convinced of their alertness after a short experience in one of the accidents happening every day.  Victims of any sort of accidents are very promptly deluged with cards and advertsiements of such attorneys: but it used to be necessary for the lawyers to wait until the cases were published in the newspapers.  Now such delay rarely occurs.   The method of acquainting themselves with such matters has been brought down to a science, and offers to obtain legal redress reach the victims of the misfortune rapidly.  One instance of escpecial promptness happened the other day, when a man was run over by a wagon in Grand street.  This occurred at half past 8 in the morning, and before 10 a lawyer had interviewed him and made arrangements to undertake the case.  Such rapidity is rather exceptional, but instances little short of it are to be noticed every day.  <any of these accidents from driving take place on the crowded streets of the East Side, and there the news travels quickly to the offices of the lawyers who make a specialty of such practice.  They are seen on the spot, and the victim is readily traced to his home or the hospital to which he may have been carried.  The "ambulance chaser" who waits to learn of an accident from the newspapers is regarded now as a very unenterprising lawyer.--New York Sun.

Newark Daily Advocate - 8/18/1897
...time before they steal anything again. THE AMBULANCE CHASER. A New Occupation For In St.....tc Kuin the name cuds for years back. The "AMBULANCE CHASER" is in the rmploj of Home.....damage suits. an accident of any sort the "AMBULANCE CHASER" is right to the front in.....in getting the case on these terms. The "AMBULANCE CHASER" and his boss, the attorney..
Newark, Ohio   Wednesday, August 18, 1897  807 k