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N.J. Lawyers Sue to Scrap Med-Mal Insurance Fee
East News • January 30, 2005
The New Jersey Legislature could have seen this coming. It enacted a law requiring the state's lawyers, and many doctors, to pay $75 a year for three years to help doctors in high-risk specialties ...
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| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Ellen | Feb 24, 2005, 7:18 am |
| Insurance companies have become the Good Guys. Luv It!! | EQUIPOSE | Feb 20, 2005, 6:03 pm |
| RE: RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | LR | Feb 19, 2005, 3:21 pm |
| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | William | Feb 15, 2005, 8:17 pm |
| RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Renee | Feb 1, 2005, 11:17 am |
| Med-Mal Insurance Fee | Bill Reid | Jan 31, 2005, 12:49 pm |
| Oh, too funny | Mike | Jan 31, 2005, 12:22 pm |
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Subject: RE: Med-Mal Insurance Fee
Secondly, if they prove this, then should they not charge the lawyers who have brought medical malpractice cases into the courts thus 'causing' the increases?
Thirdly, instead of this, why don't they simply charge a percentage of every medical malpractice settlement and damage award and use that income to subsidize.
I'm in law school (in another state) studying to be a real estate lawyer and I don't ever plan on participating in a medical malpractice suit in my lifetime.
If I were in NJ doing real estate law, creating leases, sales agreements, loan documents, etc, why should I be penalized for an increase in medical malpractice suits causing an increase in medical malpractice insurance?
Insurers charge varying levels of malpractice based on what area of medicine a doctor practices, as such should the state not charge this fee based on the area of law a lawyer practices in?
William