Hospitals can be extremely fertile grounds for runners to solicit accident victims. Sometimes they directly approach victims. Other times are more sly. They approach accident victims and pretend to be injured or waiting for someone who was injured. They tell the victim that after leaving the hospital they or their friends and/or relatives are going to a “great” lawyer or doctor. This is pure fraud. The runner is not being treated in the hospital. Neither are their relatives and friends. They are only looking to make money by referring victims for treatment or legal services.