Ambulance chasing, also known as barratry, is an American term which refers to a lawyer soliciting for clients at a disaster site.
[5] In the UK, Indicative Behaviour (IB) 8.5 of the Solicitors Regulation Authority Code of Conduct 2011 specifies that "approaching people in the street, at ports of entry, in hospital or at the scene of an accident" is to be taken as an indication of non-compliance with the SRA Principles.
[6] The term has also been used to refer to disreputable motorsport journalists who cover racing crashes in a tabloid journalism-style with little respect for those who may have been injured or killed.
[7] In scientific literature, the term "ambulance chasing" refers to a socio-scientific phenomenon that manifests as a surge in the number of preprint papers on a particular topic.
In particular, it refers to interpretive papers published quickly after a new anomalous measurement has been produced.